Thanks for this inspiring post.
“For every supportive colleague, I discovered, there is a louder opponent.”
These people usually only listen to authority. Do they know about your past experiences with PBL? I encourage you to be persistent and to share your enthusiasm as much as you can, and…
We completely agree with the value of hands-on-learning and “do-it-yourself learning experiences.” These types of activities encourage students to exercise critical thinking and problem solving skills and make real-life connects to their learning.
Developing a sense of agency is one of the most skills students can develop in (and out) of school-one of the reasons maker education can be powerful.
I’ll “yes, and” that. I’ve been wondering what the student’s experience is like in graduating from a nontraditional high school and then going to a traditional university. Most nontraditional schools focus on how well their students are able to transition into a “top university” and succeed there. But what if the student doesn’t want to go to a…
The question before us, updated for the era of Android and iOS, is as old as the abandoned factories and smokestacks of the Industrial Age; the brick and soot-stained behemoths of automation, run by a series of elongated steam whistles marking the start and finish of the workday, as well as the changing of shifts and a brief interlude for the…
I don’t think there is any disagreement that kids benefit from having hands on learning.
Girls that sew or bake do not have math anxiety. They are not afraid of fractions. Why? because they work with numbers all the time. They measure and do calculations in their head. Numbers are fun and the means to an end, be it a new…
