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On Fence Designers and Citizen Thinkers**
Who are the learners today who learn in the moment because of their own interests or because they need to do so? The learners who don’t just learn on command when we want them to learn? Where are the citizen-thinkers … Continue reading
Gratitude Past Due: Lessons on Culture… People… Determination
I often find myself awake in the early morning hours in front of a flickering screen searching for words to describe how I feel about micro-conversations in which we share, chat, discuss, and, with some predictability, argue about all things education … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Leadership, school culture, social story, Uncategorized
Tagged 21st century learning, kindergarten, lifelong learning, mentorship, twitter
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11 Reasons Why I am Thankful for American Education: Revisiting Perspective
Horace Mann once wrote “the public school is the greatest discovery of man.” He understood the importance of public education as a foundation for creating a culture of democratic participation in the relatively young United States of his day. We in … Continue reading
Our Kids Are Talking. But Are We Listening?
Voices of learners inform the compelling purpose of our roles as educators – why we exist. The voices of learners, if we listen to them, also call us to question whether 20th century “command and control” structures and practices serve … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Game Changers, school culture, Uncategorized
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The “K Playbook”: Professional Learning for a Lifetime
A mentor once said to me that he had never seen a kindergartener arrive at school with the idea that he or she was not a learner. During my professional years spent as an elementary principal, I cherished the opportunity … Continue reading
#WhatIWrite: A National Day of Giving Voice to Learners and Educators
I write to feel, to think, to live, to connect, to make sense, to communicate. Why I write and what I write cannot exist separate from each other. What I write at work remains pretty basic; responding to what often … Continue reading
Abandoning the Space Shuttle… a Lesson for Educators
The U.S. Department of Education, and more than a few state-level departments, could take a lesson from NASA. On a recent evening, I had the opportunity to again hear one of my favorite local celebrities; Kathy Thornton, engineer, professor, UVa … Continue reading
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Finding Our Way on the S-Curve .. confident, competent, contemporary learning
Last year, a middle school teacher commented that students wanted to share their stories “with the world” and so they wrote scripts, directed, acted, and turned their stories into a variety of ‘silent” videos posted to YouTube. Some question whether … Continue reading
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Why not Children as Teachers – not just Learners?
This morning I glanced occasionally at a range of adolescent orangutans engaging in problem-solving play and stick-based learning with, and from, each other on an Animal Planet show. They were teaching and learning together as mammalian young have been wont … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Game Changers, learning technologies, school culture, Uncategorized
Tagged #coderdojo, @irasocol, Coder Dojo, contemporary learning, Cubberly, educational change, factory schools, Frederick Taylor, hedge schools, ira socol, learning communities, mult-age, one-room classroom, Sugata Mitra
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In the Garden: Seeking and Finding Connections to Land, Air and Water
I spent some time yesterday reflecting upon a Connected Educators Month EdTechtalk: Teachers Teaching Teachers in which I participated last week with a diverse group of educational thinkers. Our conversation centered for me upon the critical importance of the interconnecting … Continue reading
