by edtosavetheworld | Mar 13, 2014 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
MIT Business School professor Peter Senge claims a transformational change happening in the business world: “More and more businesses in every industry sector are incorporating sustainability and social responsibility issues into their goals for the future....
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 | Dec 19, 2013 | Stage 3: Critical Thinking
We all want our students to be better thinkers, right? But do we practice what we hope to see in them? We agree with the Foundation for Critical Thinking’s assertion that: “Humans typically create thought that is vague, fragmented, contradictory,...
by edtosavetheworld | Sep 20, 2013 | Innovation Series
Today’s post features Milly Hennayake, volunteer for the African Innovation Prize. She describes her experience below: I’m currently volunteering with the African Innovation Prize (AIP- africaninnovationprize.org); a small British based NGO running...
by edtosavetheworld | Jun 6, 2013 | Stage 5: Students as World Changers
Most of us really want to make our schools more connected to the “real-world” but it can be difficult to achieve. This is another point of the five-stage framework — to give us a progression of making learning more and more authentic and relevant....
