Revolutionizing Education – Course Design
Note: This is the second in our series on Revolutionizing Education. In the first article we looked at Sal Khan and the Khan Academy. Join us as we continue looking at revolutionizing education through curriculum development. In this article, we begin identifying the levers that can be used to revolutionize education and give ideas that can be implemented to help make changes. A special thanks is in order to Pollinate Ventures for identifying many of these levers. One of the key ideas identified in our study with the Girard and Pollinate Foundations, was the idea of the coverage teaching...
Read MoreEnd of School Year Reflections
The end of another school year has arrived for most educators, bringing with it a flurry of closing activity. With summer enticing and vacation beckoning, it’s easy to understand how teachers often fail to conduct deliberate reflection on their past year’s performance. Reflection provides valuable insight into your performance and allows you to create a schedule or road map for change. Not conducting deliberate reflection quickly leads to stagnant teaching with ineffective lessons and the teacher being little more than a highly paid baby-sitter. Effective reflection should...
Read MoreTwitter Ideas
In my upcoming posts, I will outline how to find and manage followers. Until then, enjoy these ideas from professionals on how to use Twitter to improve your classroom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV5j_OIKPp4
Read MoreDo Schools Kill Creativity?
I’m always finding new and interesting speakers from TED. TED presents talks from innovative thinkers assembled from around the world. These talks often stimulate debate, showcase new ideas, and point towards the future with inventions. Sir Ken Robinson’s talk, while not new, is no exception. Ken Robinson believes that schools are educating students out of creativity. The usefulness of a subject is the measurement of its importance. This said, he proposes that the current approach not only stifles creativity, it may also deny mankind of some of its greatest talents. Take a look...
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