What happens when what is going on in your classroom can be shared around the world? Today, by sharing his students at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, Karl Fisch gave us just that opportunity–to peer into a classroom and see networked, scaffolded, engaged students at their best. For weeks, students in several English classes at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Whole New Mind'
The classroom heard ’round the world
February 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
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The peanut butter cup effect
February 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
How do you empower students to engage with a text in such a way that they can come to their own understanding of it? I just participated in a fascinating live blogging experiencewith Maura Moritz’s and Karl Fisch’s students at Arapahoe High School. The students were using the inner/outer circle discussion method in their classroom to discuss [...]
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Innovative leadership — paying it forward
July 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Change, Leadership, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant designated July 4 as School Leadership Day, and has invited bloggers to write about how to support innovative school leadership. I’d like to share some ideas but also compliment the leadership in our district and at our high school, because there have been some great strides towards innovative leadership both [...]
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Books that changed your life
April 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · libraries, Whole New Mind
This week is National Library Week and to celebrate, we’ve invited all staff on our campus to pose for a photo with their favorite book, which we’re displaying in the library. And as our “library 2.0″ feature, we’re setting up an empty table for students and asking them to “create” a display by placing their favorite book on the table [...]
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Designing the future?
March 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Cross Curricular Connections, Design, Whole New Mind
Maybe because I’m working on the new plans for the library, as well as rereading Daniel Pink’s book Whole New Mind, plus having recently visited High Tech High, I’ve been obsessing a little bit lately over the idea of the role of design and creativity in schools, and pondering about what we could do better. [...]
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