Category: Transformation

Edutopia: Portland principal promotes collaborative culture

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The genius of this school is not in a program, it’s not in the laptops, it’s in the learning. It’s in teachers designing learning that they know will work for kids … and they have the space and the time and the autonomy to do it. | Read more.

In: Collaboration, Innovation, Maine, Noted, Transformation, Video/audio

Reflecting on the tapestry of small-town life

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Once or twice a week, I spend early mornings in our natural-food-and-free-wireless coffee shop in town working on project planning and correspondence. Over the months, I’ve gotten to know a few regulars — folks who work nearby, retired professors, college students — and listened to bits of stories about their lives and what’s important to them. | Read more.

In: Musing, Transformation

Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

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From TED Talks: Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize … | Read more.

In: Innovation, Noted, Self-directed learning, Transformation
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