by Tim Holt | Jun 15, 2012 | Making The Shift, The Teaching Life, Voices
Everything we hope and expect our classrooms to be — and our students to be doing — is nowhere to be found on episodic television or in the cinema. Look hard for any type of technology being used in the classrooms portrayed on television today. It’s pretty much not there. Teachers are still portrayed as sages on the stage, students still stuck in neat rows. It’s time to demand a change!
by Powerful Learning Practice | May 4, 2011 | Conversations from the Edge
Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson. Dear Sheryl, As always, you have me thinking. The idea of a “virtual”...
by Susan Carter Morgan | May 2, 2011 | Change, Powerful Learning Practice
Finding their passion; creating global awareness; enabling learning through authentic, project-based, real-life experiences; this, indeed, is the vision for our teachers’ students at Powerful Learning Practice. At Fredericksburg Academy (one of the early schools...
by Susan Carter Morgan | Nov 2, 2010 | Change
Early on, we ask our PLPers to remain students themselves–not to gravitate toward tools that might be useful in the classroom, but instead to participate fully in conversations and discussions, using tools to do so. It’s hard, as one teacher said in our...
by Dean Shareski | Oct 28, 2010 | Change
Cross-posted I’ve got a couple of keynotes coming up and submitted this as the title. I’m good at that; coming up with a title and then figuring out what to say. I realize that’s probably the worst way to develop something but that’s how I...
