In his Creative Thinkering blog, Michael Michalko explores our fear of creative ideas and solutions. This is one example that he cites, “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” said David Sarnoff’s associates, in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-thinkering/201205/why-we-are-afraid-creativity
This is a great reflective piece written by Pernille Ripp on her blog, Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension. As the summer vacation approaches and teachers worry that their students will stop learning she asks the question, “Who owns the learning?”
http://mrspripp.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-dont-own-their-learning.html
John Larmer, writing on the Expert & Newbies blog, discusses what makes a project authentic. Most people believe that all Project Based Learning by its nature is “authentic.” Mr. Larmer demonstrates that this is not always the case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-joy-of-winning/2012/05/24/gJQAnUjAoU_story.html
Flipped learning, in which students watch instructional videos for homework and use class time to practice what they’ve learned, is catching on in many schools. This is an excerpt from a new book by two pioneers of the flipped approach, titled Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. This is a reposting from eSchool News.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/05/21/how-to-make-videos-your-students-will-love/
Common Sense from some uncommon students on digital textbooks.
This letter from college senior, Lauren Griffin, appears on the Edutopia blog. In it she offers thoughts to her former writing teachers on the good, and not so good feedback they gave her writing assignments.
This comes from John Spencer at Education Rethink:
This posting from CollegeOnline.org speaks for iteself.
In this Educational Leadership article, Gary Rubinstein offers a list of 10 behaviors that teachers should avoid. This article comes compliments of the weekly Marshall Memo.
Larry Ferlazzo writes about Orbis, a Google Maps-like tool that lets you map the fastest and cheapest route from location to location in ancient Rome. Great tool for use in ancient history class.
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