every person is a learner and everyone is a teacher
Posted in Curriculum and Academics on Dec 3rd, 2007
It’s time to pause and take a clear-eyed look at an evolving and powerful determinant of what students are being taught in American public schools. This time, instead of filtering curricula through a lens of high stakes state exams, NAEP and other testing barometers, we need to look at societal norms and realities, and examine […]
Posted in School Climate on Nov 3rd, 2007
Dr. Seuss saw it coming. Before his death in 1991, he was trying to write a book that would be a tribute to teachers, a story in celebration of individuality and creative thinking. In the last book credited to his genius, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day, readers come to know Miss Bonkers, who teaches her students […]
Posted in Technology in Education on Nov 2nd, 2007
We’re entering an era of cognitive externalization. We’re in the midst of a technology revolution that is outsourcing our need to remember everyday information. Even some of our decision-making responsibilities have been lifted in surreptitious ways.
Most people believe that the main transformative innovation of the information age was that it allowed us to know a […]
