by edtosavetheworld | Jul 1, 2014 | Ed2S Fellows
Great first day of the Ed2S Fellows Summit! Our fellows created maps of the thought leaders we’ve profiled over the last few weeks. Which way of organizing our 13 influential thinkers makes the most sense to you?...
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 | Dec 17, 2013 | Stage 3: Critical Thinking
How can we be sure that students are actually thinking and not just parroting back what we have already taught them? This is much more difficult than most teachers realize. We often assume they are analyzing or evaluating when they are just repeating our analysis or...
by edtosavetheworld | Dec 6, 2013 | Innovation Series
Today we are honored to have Laurin Hodge share her thoughts on innovation. Laurin is the Executive Director at Mission: Launch, Inc, a nonprofit that creates tools specifically for women so they are empowered to recover, reconnect, and overcome the barriers to...
by edtosavetheworld | Oct 17, 2013 | Stage 2: Active Processing
Authors of the book Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein convincingly assert that most of us are “choice architects.” The ways in which we lay out choices for others can have a profound impact on what they select. If lunch is displayed a certain way in school...
