by edtosavetheworld | May 23, 2016 | Ed2S Fellows, News and Trends, Uncategorized
Well, we haven’t written in quite some time — we’ve been busy! We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of our first two books: Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding. The secondary edition will be out in January and the...
by edtosavetheworld | Apr 16, 2014 | Stage 2: Active Processing
What does it look like to ask very young students to actively process their learning? The students below are in 1st Grade. They have selected words that were pasted around the room and are sorting them into long a, i, o and u sounds. They also walked around and...
by edtosavetheworld | Mar 11, 2014 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
One of the most common complaints from teachers is lack of student motivation for learning. We also hear a lot of complaints about the selfishness of younger generations. But researchers have found that most young people do care about the state of the world and often...
by edtosavetheworld | Mar 6, 2014 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
By and large, formal schooling is set up to push learning onto students. Adults decide what they need to learn and when they will learn it. Students show up and (most?) take notes and complete exercises. Contrast that with learning that students pull because they have...
by edtosavetheworld | Feb 13, 2014 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Why do students struggle to remember something we’ve taught? Or why do they remember fragments of it but don’t see how the pieces fit together? Cognitive psychologist of the University of Virginia, Daniel Willingham calls this shallow knowledge. He says,...
