January 2012
4 Lessons The Classroom Can Learn From The Design... →
pushingupward:
1. A culture of critical collaboration
2. Interdisciplinary problem solving, every day
3. Tinkering with solutions and reclaiming failure
4. The shared power of the pencil and pixel
This is so true. If we just change these things in our own classes, all the other issues would start to be worked out.
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“A unified, student-centered system would produce the best possible outcome for...”
– GUEST VIEWPOINT: More testing will erode real education further
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Cooperative Catalyst- Student Voice Collection →
cooperativecatalyst:
We have had a number of recent new student/youth leaders join us at the Cooperative Catalyst, either as guest bloggers or members. Here is a handful of their important posts!
Youth Rights, Dignity, and the Anti-Democratic Values of Public Schooling
Learning Revolution, Are You Ready? (Guest Post by Line Dalile)
It Takes People to Make a Change, Not a Government (Guest...
More Grown Up And A Better Daughter: What Was... →
ksmmoss:
We were broken, like horses are. The sinister standard curve was drawn, shweoo, by my advanced-placement-statistics teacher, over and over. So fast - he must have known that curve like the curve of his own skull. The class parsed its percentiles - percentiles we knew. By then, our senior year in…
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Cooperative Catalyst →
Active Conversations
Youth Rights, Dignity, and the Anti-Democratic Values of Public Schooling
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
An Eighth Grader’s Letter to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook
The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools
Ten Reasons to Abolish Homework (And Five Alternatives)
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
The kind of mayoral engagement I think we can celebrate
Not...
Invest in kids, not test scores | OregonLive.com →
theneongypsy:
adventuresinlearning:
We believe that focusing on increasing student test scores on narrowly defined test questions is not a valid purpose of the school system. Educating human beings to express themselves, be creative, empathetic toward others, concerned with the well-being of fellow citizens, sensitive to the environments we inhabit and use, able to speak multiple ...
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“The K-12 education system, more so the 6-12 portion has become so distracted...”
– Comment Posted by Jabreel Chisley on “Youth Rights, Dignity, and the Anti-Democratic Values of Public Schooling” « Cooperative Catalyst
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Youth Rights, Dignity, and the Anti-Democratic... →
As students, we are told that we are being made into an “informed citizenry” capable of maintaining a vibrant democracy. Indeed, we are told that we must give up most of our constitutional rights in the name of achieving this goal. We are compelled to attend an institution where our every action, from speaking, to moving, to going to the bathroom is strictly controlled by an authority figure....
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Cooperative Catalyst →
Active Conversations
An Eighth Grader’s Letter to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook
We Are the Present: Why Youth Voices are Necessary
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools
The Definition of Education
An indictment of whom?
Ten Reasons to Abolish Homework (And Five Alternatives)
The kind of mayoral engagement I...
“There as a study in which it comes out that thirty of the largest companies in...”
– Massachusetts Senate candidate ELIZABETH WARREN, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
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The kind of mayoral engagement I think we can... →
humanscaleschools:
A Quick Snapshot of the Education City
The Education City is a model that helps revamp the city by using education as a lever for change.
It focuses on adjusting the education system to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. It provides each and every child with the opportunity to excel in what they are good at by enlisting the strengths and...
The Builders' Manifesto - Umair Haque - Harvard... →
The 21st century doesn’t need more leaders - nor more leadership. Only Builders can kickstart the chain reaction of a better, more authentic kind of prosperity.
How can you become one? Here are the ten principles of Constructivism (contrasted with these principles of leadership).
The boss drives group members; the leader coaches them. The Builder learns from them.
The boss depends upon...
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♂ 10 Reasons Why Men are Better at Teaching Than... →
To be fair they also added sexist generalized claims about men too! These kind of articles make me sad and then angry. This from a site promoting teaching. We have a long way to go, till we transform education and article like this do not help, unless it spurs people to speak out against them.
-Adventures in Learning
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10 Reasons Why Women Are Better At Teaching Than... →
bloomingtogether:
grayer:
As a male teacher who is also gay, I defy your ridiculous hetero-normative notions. By preempting your article with a “this may not be true in all cases,” is the equivalent of saying “I’m not stereotyping but…”
If you truly cared about education, you would be posting proven strategies that can help learners. Instead you’re wasting everyone’s time by implying that...
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Cooperative Catalyst →
Active Conversations
We Are the Present: Why Youth Voices are Necessary
Mirroring Back Student Words—in Realtime
Cooperative Catalyst: Week in Review 1/16th-1/22nd
My Educational Pathway Over The Past Six Years
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
The learning trough: the five-month update and metaphors related to animals
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2 Weeks...
“None came from wages, the primary source of income for most Americans.”
– Mitt Romney releases tax returns - The Washington Post
Why I'm Leaving Public Education: A Teacher's... →
torranceteachersassociation:
This is a sad first hand account of how high stakes testing and merit pay drove a teacher away from the profession. And we wonder how we lose so many of our brightest and best…
Invest in kids, not test scores | OregonLive.com →
We believe that focusing on increasing student test scores on narrowly defined test questions is not a valid purpose of the school system. Educating human beings to express themselves, be creative, empathetic toward others, concerned with the well-being of fellow citizens, sensitive to the environments we inhabit and use, able to speak multiple languages, as well as knowing complex subject...
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“We believe that focusing on increasing student test scores on narrowly defined...”
– Invest in kids, not test scores | OregonLive.com
More Grown Up And A Better Daughter: What Was... →
ksmmoss:
We were broken, like horses are. The sinister standard curve was drawn, shweoo, by my advanced-placement-statistics teacher, over and over. So fast - he must have known that curve like the curve of his own skull. The class parsed its percentiles - percentiles we knew. By then, our senior year in…
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Cooperative Catalyst →
Active Conversations
We Are the Present: Why Youth Voices are Necessary
My Educational Pathway Over The Past Six Years
The learning trough: the five-month update and metaphors related to animals
Mirroring Back Student Words—in Realtime
refocus
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Evaluating our Values
I Am the Ninety-Nine Percent, And Actually I’m Pissed
Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2...
Cooperative Catalyst: Week in Review 1/16th-1/22nd... →
Cooperative Catalyst →
Recent Posts
Mirroring Back Student Words–in Realtime
My Educational Pathway Over The Past Six Years
We Are the Present: Why Youth Voices are Necessary
The learning trough: the five-month update and metaphors related to animals
“When we pretend that children are just adults in hatching, waiting to become...”
– We Are the Present: Why Youth Voices are Necessary « Cooperative Catalyst
Why the World Needs "Childish" Thinking
Well Said, Adora! I tried of all the news stories of children doing amazing work, that are broadcasted with a tone of “oh, ain’t that cute!”. While it is worth showcasing the work of children, I would rather have a conversation about what we as adults are doing that keep all the amazing talents of children untapped. In the 70’s there was a human potential movement, I...
“My speeches about youth voice admittedly stemmed from some frustration. Young...”
– Adora Svitak: Why the World Needs “Childish” Thinking
Creative Education: Apple Is A Corporation! →
creative-education:
[Rant] I just heard that my school, a 1:1 school using MacBooks for students in grades 6-12, has been told Apple will no longer make those machines. They say we should replace our laptops with iPads. I get it. iPads are “consumer” devices. They are very popular, solid state - making them profitable to make (with cheap labor in China), and the device driving Apple’s...
BREAKING: Police Fire Projectiles at Students from... →
occupysfsu:
Students from UC Riverside, protesting today’s Board of Regents meeting, were confronted by riot police, with multiple reports indicating they were fired upon with paint-filled bullets and other projectiles that injured several at the scene…
“Once you’ve recognized that textbooks are just an assemblage of resources...”
– Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution
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“But textbooks are always an assembly from a variety of sources, geared towards a...”
– Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution
Traditional education is traditional education no matter if it is digital or on paper! to truly transform education we need to move away from changing passive delivery models of finite knowledge to a truly process based learning model that is about...
“At-risk children.” This term is often used interchangeably with “poor children...”
– Listen carefully and you will hear the 1% taking power - BlueOregon
Listen carefully and you will hear the 1% taking... →
“School choice”: Gee, choice sounds like a good thing, until you realize that school choice has always meant segregation. It meant racial segregation in the South when I was growing up. It is playing out that way here, by way of economic segregation, and in another important way: While we have gained schools with science focus or arts focus, we have lost our capacity to teach science and arts...
Cooperative Catalyst →
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Recent Posts
I’m Not a Moderate (Even When It Looks Like It)
Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2 Weeks Detention…For Talking Seriously About Education
Change from Within vs Change from Without
Wanted: Common Core Stories
Getting Real About Engagement (Guest Post By Adam Fletcher)
The Conditionals of Money
My Love/Hate Relationship with Educational Numbers
Apocalyptic teaching in...
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“Education in America has always been an adult’s conversation; it’s been the...”
– Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2 Weeks Detention…For Talking Seriously About Education « Cooperative Catalyst
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