Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a story that’s been circulating around the airwaves in the last few weeks about a teacher who’s been suspended for giving zeros to students who don’t submit work. The suspension is for not doing as he’s told. This school … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutevia Global Edmonton | Student gets a zero: Teacher gets suspended. Formal education takes another giant leap towards irrelevancy: EDMONTON – A teacher with more than three decades of experience is speaking out after he says he was suspended for … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s interesting how certain ideas seem to come together in bunches. I was at a conference this week and one of the keynotes talked about his notion of “productive failure“. This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite some … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com. Interesting: With one group of students, the teacher provided strong “scaffolding” — instructional support — and feedback. With the teacher’s help, these pupils were able to … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve talked about this before (Trading off between Education and Fun??? SRSLY?, and FUN Should NOT be an ‘F’-Word). I even wrote about this in my book. Many people in Education seem to believe that fun and education are at … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes » Top Ten Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child giftedguru.com. I shared this on FB the other day and got some responses I had to think about for a while. First, here’s the summary of the list: Force them … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet. It looks great. This isn’t a new concept though – Canada (and I’m sure other places too) experimented with “Open Concept” schools in the late 60’s. The design of the school in the … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteNote to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education. This isn’t news. I’ve been doing this for decades. Not long after I started teaching, I came to realize that a good way to … Continue reading