by edtosavetheworld | Dec 12, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
In construction, scaffolding is a temporary structure used to support people and materials when a building is under construction. The key word in that sentence is “temporary.” The goal of scaffolding is to eventually make itself unnecessary. Does scaffolding in your...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 11, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Active processing is all about turning on students’ brains while learning — it’s contrasted with passive learning, rote learning or shallow memorization. Students should understand the learning goal and be able to track their progress towards that...
by edtosavetheworld | Nov 25, 2013 | News and Trends
One year ago, Harvard Business Review’s cover story was entitled Accelerate! and stated: “Companies used to reconsider their strategies only rarely. Today any company that isn’t rethinking its direction at least every few years — as well as...
by edtosavetheworld | Nov 20, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership
Transformation is no joke. It’s different from incremental change. It requires more than just a few tweaks here and there. We need to question everything we do and ask if it fits with 21st Century principles of learning. We asked four teachers to share a habit...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 31, 2013 | Stage 3: Conceptual Understanding
Here’s a quick experiment: Look at the below chess board for 5 seconds and then look away. No cheating. Now try to reconstruct the board in your mind. How many pieces can you correctly place? Take Our Poll Now answer this question: do you play chess? Take...
