How often do students not want an assignment to end? In the blogosphere, we often talk about the transformative power of assignments that ignite student passions and connect them to a global audience, and the importance a tool like blogging can play in that. In this case, Christian Long’s Alice Project wasn’t just about blogging [...]
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And the children shall lead them?
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Future students, Learning, Web 2.0
Students in a new universe?
June 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments · Change, Future students
As we grapple with what a student-centered classroom actually looks like in practice, it clearly involves a real shift in our thinking. Robert Fried points out in The Passionate Learner that “the difference is roughly comparable to that between the Ptolemaic and Copernican views of the solar system.” But as he points out, most of [...]
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What end do we have in mind?
April 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments · Future students, Learning
I had a conversation today with a student about class rank, and the detrimental effects she’s felt as a result. I won’t go into details here due to privacy for her concerns, but it made me once again wonder what we are doing to children in our high schools in this country. We’ve created [...]
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The silent majority is going to speak
December 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Future students, Web 2.0
Wow. The edublogging universe has just shifted. The students are joining us. I am so incredibly thrilled about a new blogging project launched by Clay Burell, a colleague in Seoul, Korea, and a talented group of international students(glad to see a few I already read in there!) In fact, I am so jazzed about Student 2.0 [...]
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No way to go back
December 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Future students
What happens once our students write for real audiences outside of their classrooms? What happens when they see the power of authentic and personal writing? In her post questioning the merits of the SAT, student Nicole plaintively writes, I just feel that the “writing” test isn’t a test to see if we are capable of writing a [...]
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Testing carried too far?
November 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Future students, Learning
In Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Sir Ken Robinson astutely makes the case that unless we understand the education system that the future demands of us, then our efforts to create testing systems will not prepare us for that future. He points to the increasingly rapid rate of technological change that is [...]
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Good enough?
September 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Future students, Research
How do students choose their sources? After finishing the video I created about ”authority of sources” I have come to the conclusion one thing I’d like to know more about is how students make those choices, so I can include their thoughts in the video as well. So I’ve been talking to students when they’ve been [...]
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Collaborative research–Rethinking the model
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Collaboration, Future students, Learning, libraries, Research
As I have been doing some reading all summer, my whole notion of research is shifting somewhat. Maybe it is reflecting the shift that many of our students are living, as well. I’m coming to realize more and more that although in schools we treat research as a somewhat solitary activity, in its true form, [...]
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For our sons and daughters
August 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Innovation, Web 2.0
On Tuesday night, I attended a service for a family friend and one of our students, Jack Jenkins. A family member read a poem that Jack had written in middle school, and one line resonated with me. “I am an important person and I have something to contribute to this world.” As we talk about [...]
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In memoriam
August 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Future students
. . . . “I am an important person and I have something to contribute to this world.” Jack Jenkins. Hoping that each day, we can remember that about each of the students whose lives we touch.
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