December 2011
“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow”
– John Dewey (via sgmsprincipalsbulletin)
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Are Teachers Activists?
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Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Teaching: The Most Noble Profession
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Four Decades...
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John T. Spencer
We’re Not the Enemy
One Size Fits Some
Ten Reasons to Abolish Homework (And Five Alternatives)
Pre-Occupy Wall Street
How I Learned to Shut Up
Let’s Build Factories
Actually, You Don’t Hate Math (or Social Studies or English or Science)
More Grown Up And A Better Daughter: Teaching... →
ksmmoss:
I put A Whole New Mind on my ever-growing reading list this summer after hearing about it on a teacher blog, possibly Think Thank Thunk. The theme of the book is that skills such as analysis, memorizing facts and procedures, and focusing on details, which are the strength of our…
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Let’s Admit It - Education is Not the Most Important Thing in Life
I’m Tired of Talking About Education
New Year, New Teacher-my classroom resolutions for 2012
Something That Needs to Happen (Part 2) : Commencing Operation Drain the Pipeline
Being a Student Ally: Teachers as Necessary Voices of Protest
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Please leave a light on—I’m...
Wilco Civic Opera House / Chicago, IL →
Listen to this live concert by Wilco. Quite perfect!
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Teacher Sabrina writing at the Cooperative... →
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Posted by Sabrina ⋅ August 22, 2011 ⋅ 5 Comments
Here in Denver, new mayor Michael Hancock and several corporate-funded education advocacy organizations are hosting a series of education forums under the name “More From Our Schools: Deeper Dialogue on Education Issues“. So far, it looks like ideological balance is going to be a big issue...
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Being a Student Ally: Teachers as Necessary Voices of Protest
Please leave a light on—I’m comin’ home!
What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For? How We Educate Our Children
Educated Decisions: The Role of Education in a Democracy
Making It Real…and Making a Difference!
The Definition of Education
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Teaching: The...
Reblog if you want your followers to ask you...
seriouslyamerica:
laborreguita:
yes i do.
Please?
why not! shoot
about:adventuresinlearning →
Overview
Your tumblelog (residing at adventuresinlearning.tumblr.com) is called Adventures in Learning and given the description “A blog about Learning, about Education, about reform, about change, about what it means to teach. I am trying to ask the question “Why we educate” and what my answer means to me as a teacher and how my role shapes society and the whole....
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Unite for transformation
We need everyone in the effort to transform education. If you are for the well-being of kids and have visions of a more just and sustainable future, you are an ally. We need to start reaching out to all groups! Parents, students, teachers, policy makers, home educators, public, private, interdependent schools, community or alternative educators, and any one that cares.This effort will...
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Watch(via Kickstarter - Approaching the Elephant)
Approaching the Elephant is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where classes are optional and rules are made by democratic vote. Summerhill, founded 90 years ago by A. S. Neill, was the first free school - now there are more than 200 worldwide. Approaching the Elephant chronicles a free school in the making - spanning...
“Be bold. Be brave. Be amazing.”
– Simon de Pury
Why Are the Rich So Interested in Public-School... →
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occupyeducation:
Thinking structurally about social ills, rejecting excessive individualism for community-based, it-takes-a-village-style responsibility, has been out of favor in America for a long time. In education reform, what’s been in style instead is vilifying teachers and their unions. For some schools, making the grade has meant cooking the books to show results. Let’s...
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“The idea that we’re testing kids and we’re tying teachers salaries to how kids...”
– Matt Damon March 2011 (via occupyeducation)
I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with what he said, but what does he mean by higher order? I really just don’t know what he’s referring to, not trying to be negative, for once.
(via polygonal-lasso)
He means high order thinking skills, like creative...
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Active Conversations
Two tales of personalization and technology
What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Four Decades of Education Reform
Jesus at Jefferson High
Empowering Self-Directed Learners
Pre-Occupy Wall Street
Community-based Schools—Really!
Teaching to the Test? What is the Point of This? Northeast Social Studies Exam … Guess Which Grade
About Cooperative...
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“Organizing based on shared values invites people to escape ‘issue silos’ and...”
– Marshall Ganz via IDEA: The Institute for Democratic Education in America
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10,000 dollars an hour!
JP Morgan CEO makes over 10,000 dollars an hour! An Hour! Not a month not a day…. a hour! This is the same man, who told the 99% to stop picking on him!
Next time someone tells Occupy that all is okay, that we should get out of the streets! Or that the Rich create jobs and support the economy… relay that fact!
Many many people don’t make that amount in a year. Another reason...
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Students should be testing themselves, experimenting, finding their way. Not tested and experimented on my Corp Reformers, who only want to find $
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Scott Nine's writing at Cooperative Catalyst... →
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A list of incredible humans who know what real education looks like
Posted by scottnine ⋅ November 1, 2011 ⋅ 4 Comments
Late last week, I was in a conversation with Sheryl Petty where she graciously encouraged me to look at just how much IDEA and my own thinking is impacted by other humans who have put their ideas and love into words. In support of #blog4idec and today’s...
40 Incredible Blogs That Are Changing Education |... →
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More Inspiration, this time at home.
Posted by mrsenorhill ⋅ July 27, 2011 ⋅ 1 Comment
This is cross-posted from The Disruption Department Blog, an organization in St. Louis that is creating a platform for community learning. *********************** I posted the other day about the inspiration I found from some forward thinking teens convening next week around start-ups...
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OCCUPY EDUCATION - Submit your OCCUPY EDUCATION... →
It is time for another round of Occupy Education Pictures. I challenge all my followers on here to take 10 minutes and create a sign that showcases some of the reasons you Occupy Education.
Please take a picture and submit it here.
As the holiday break begins, we leave the classroom, but we enter into the learning environments of our homes, and our communities.
Now is a perfect time to...
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Khan Academy does not constitute an education revolution, but I’ll tell you what does
Posted by stevemiranda ⋅ November 13, 2011 ⋅ 47 Comments
Chris Anderson, the visionary leader of the TED conference, recently wrote about “The Year’s 7 Most Powerful Ideas.” He highlights some important stuff, but regrettably misses the mark when he takes on education. Powerful Idea No....
