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How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory
By Suzie Boss The following suggestions for turning K-12 classrooms into innovation spaces come from Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World, published in July by Solution Tree. How can we prepare today’s students to become tomorrow’s innovators? It’s an urgent challenge, repeated by President Obama, corporate CEOs, and global [...]
Three Things to Unlearn About Learning
flickr:CDsessums “If you’re not feeling uncomfortable about the state of education right now, then you’re not paying attention to the pressures and challenges of technology,” said Will Richardson, a veteran educator author and consultant, at a talk at ISTE 2012. “We need to acknowledge that this is a very interesting moment, and even though in [...]
Beyond Technology, How to Spark Kids’ Passions
Amidst a sea of available technology, what does it take to engage students, not just within a standardized curriculum, but in their own learning? What’s technology’s role, and what are policy implications?
Learning that Happens Online and Off, In and Out of School
Could this be a model for the future school? Students spend time doing projects at off-site organizations, listening to lectures at home, collaborating with other students and teachers at school.
Shifting the Classroom, One Step at a Time
On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge and thank educators like Shelley Wright, who tirelessly look for ways to inspire their students to dig deep and to love to learn.
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