by edtosavetheworld | Dec 31, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
How many times have you stood in front of the class with an interesting situation or dilemma and narrated your thoughts aloud for your students so they can hear how you reason through it? If we just “tell” students what experts have “figured...
by edtosavetheworld | Aug 29, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
What is a “flipped classroom?” Essentially, instead of teachers lecturing in school, they record lectures and students watch them at home. Then students do what is traditionally assigned for “homework” in school while the teacher is present for...
by edtosavetheworld | Aug 16, 2013 | Innovation Series
Happy Friday! Today’s How I Innovate guest blogger is Shane Greenup co-creator of rbutr, an exciting community-driven app that seeks to bring the spirit of debate and balanced perspective to our online reading. Shane’s comments follow. rbutr is a...
by edtosavetheworld | Jul 24, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
What do we hope students would say if we asked them why we study different academic disciplines? Asking students during the summer is a great exercise to get baseline data for what they think. Questions to help us analyze their responses: Are we teaching the...
by edtosavetheworld | Jul 23, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
“The best way to understand circles is to reinvent the wheel.” Nicholas Negroponte, Founder MIT Media Lab My thinking about the purpose of academic subjects has evolved quite a bit over the last decade. Even the use of the word...
