This is the fourth and final episode in our exploration of the theme community this month, and I want to say from the start, that this conversation you’re about to hear on equity, community, and culture has been one that I’ve been struggling with recently. There are many challenges and tensions that we face in
#72 – Equity, Culture, and Community with Tricia Ebarvia Read More »
So in case you may be new to the pod, each month we take on a different theme from four different angles, and this week, we’re looking at our theme of community through our third lens, that of classroom practice. As in what would the classroom look like if the community itself was the curriculum?
#71 – Community as the Curriculum with Dave Cormier Read More »
Here’s a question you may want to ask a representative sampling of your students: On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being “not at all” and 10 being “very,” how predictable is your school experience? As in how much of your school day (or school year) pretty much sticks to the script? Whenever I get
Schools are “Totally Predictable.” We Good With That? Read More »
Welcome to our second podcast on the theme of “community.” While the web has been around for about 25 years now, learning on the Internet really started way before the web was even in development. For those of us old enough to remember the days of computer modems and online bulletin boards, if you had
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It’s a new month as we turn into September 2019 and that means a new theme for our podcasts and for our conversations in MLC, our Modern Learners Community. Podcastwise, I’m a little sad that our dive into the theme of Story in August is over. What I’ve learned is that we tell stories in
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One of our favorite phrases to use in education when we’re reflecting on the decisions we make in schools is “in the best interests of students.” As in we need to consistently put our kids ahead of anything else when we think about our practice and our systems. And no one disagrees with that sentiment,
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This is the fourth and final podcast in our series on the theme of “story,” and I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to them as much as I’ve enjoyed recording them. As many of my guests have expressed, we are in between stories in education, and this is both a challenging and exciting time for us
#68 – Talking About Race, Culture, and Identity with Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi Read More »
If you listened two our previous two podcasts on the topic of “story” I think you’ll agree that we educators are at an interesting spot when it comes to the way we think and talk about education and schooling moving forward. The old story that you have to be somewhere at a particular time with
#67 – Creating a New Story of Learning With Mary Anne Moran and John Clements Read More »
One story of school that we rarely acknowledge but that runs beneath almost everything we do is that school is a game to be “won.” At a minimum, students win it by doing what they need to do to graduate and attain whatever academic status is expected of them. Parents win it by doing what
http://media.blubrry.com/modernlearners/content.blubrry.com/modernlearners/Bryan_Alexander.mp3 All this month in the community we’re talking about the theme of story, how the story of school and education is changing, and what we need to do to help create a new story for teaching and learning moving forward. And so along those lines, in this week’s podcast I interview long time
#66 – Futurist Bryan Alexander: Stories of Change Read More »
Each month our Modern Learners Community (MLC) , we take on specific theme, and in August, our theme is “story.” As in what is the current story of learning we are telling in our schools, how is that story changing, and what might the new story be? And so to kick things off this month,
#65 – A New Story of School Based on Beliefs Read More »
Starting in August, we’re kicking off a new theme in our Modern Learners Community on “Story.” Through our podcasts, book studies, special events and more, we’re going to dive into the many https://modernlearners.getvbdev.communityways that stories define our work in terms of the paths we choose to follow, the ways we measure success, the way we
We Choose the Stories We Tell Read More »
1. A few months ago I plopped myself down in a front row auditorium seat next to a young man with frazzled hair and braces who was looking uncomfortable in a collared, button-down shirt with an overly wide and ornate tie often seen on middle school boys. “How’s it goin’?” I asked. He looked up
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I’ve come to read predictions about the future of work with a healthy skepticism. So much click bait. So much preying on fears. So much focused on the technologies instead of the choices we make about the technologies. So much…period. Today more than ever we need to be careful consumers of what’s being written about
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Unpleasant Truth about Education #47: Kids learn more deeply in school when participating in extracurriculars than they do when being taught in classrooms. That’s one of the many provocative conclusions drawn by authors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine in their book In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School. It’s
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