The Schools We Need Presentation at Ignite Philly 2 - Uploaded by tdlifestyle
Chris Lehmann is brilliant in this video!
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Think Different at Students 2.0
Think of the wealth of talent that is being and has been squandered due to this system. How many people would have become the next great composer if they had been given just that little bit more leeway?
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blog of proximal development » Blog Archive » Conversation with Pre-Service Teachers - The Set Curriculum
“I need 89% on this assignment to get into Queen’s.”
That’s when I realized that, to Julia - one of the best students in my class, one of the best writers - writing was really only about getting a grade. It had no other meaning or purpose. All of her learning was reduced to one thing - the need to achieve a certain average.
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injenuity » Background Noise
Those of us seeking change and experimenting with alternative learning models, are learners who discovered in our youth that we had to take control of our own learning. ..Find your own answers. Find your own meaning, and then share it with everyone!
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Dear Middle School...
Thanks for making me really hate, fine I wont say hate–dislike with a passion– you guys. After punishing me for being a good dancer, a good student, locking me in the school one time while I was trying to do make up one of YOUR tests,
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Contest: Dismaying class assignments
What’s the most dismaying / inane / worthless class assignment you’ve seen or heard about?
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How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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Square Peg, Round Hole | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
This post was very instrumental to my thinking and it was inspired by a former student, Kris. Later, I helped inspire one of her posts and it got a little bit of attention: How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci was a finalist in the 2007 Edublog Awards in the Most Influential category. Now I am helping her by hosting her blog, and she is helping me with some tech support… the teacher/student lines are blurred. It is no longer about established roles, but rather it is about learners helping each other… hubs in a learning network.
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Introduction and Apology - Fireside Learning: Conversations about Education
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Refining the Message: A Re-Post and Self-Check on Fear and Irrelevance in Education::Beyond School
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Learning Pyramid
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