by edtosavetheworld | Feb 11, 2014 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Here’s an important truth: If we don’t address students’ preconceptions about topics directly they will likely continue to walk around with partial understanding or misunderstanding. Period. End of story. The first principle from How Students Learn:...
by edtosavetheworld | Feb 5, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Teachers from all corners of the earth have a common complaint: Not enough time to teach the things that need to be taught. While the complaint is certainly legitimate we have more power than we think to increase efficiency in teaching and learning. If you find...
by edtosavetheworld | Jan 30, 2014 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient
Yesterday we had a great guest post from teacher Laura McCarthy. Maybe it’s because I’m 7 months pregnant but I actually teared up while reading her field trip story… Laura says: “Creating a joyful classroom instills a passion for learning and...
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 7, 2013 | Stage 4: Disciplinary Thinking
The world is changing at an unprecedented rate. What jobs will today’s students be doing in 20 years? Are our schools coming even close to preparing them? In an entertaining speech at the IBM Think Forum, Tom Friedman gives us this equation: Globalization +...
