“Tomorrow is going to be the best day of my life.” He floated off to bed. He was talking about school. Sometimes, with everything we read, we can be hard pressed to hear a student speak that way about attending class. But he was full of hope and promise about what a good day it…
Category: personalized learning
My Top 3 for 2015 (with apologies to Chris Kennedy)
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. Arthur Miller I tried not to do it but I couldn’t resist. I have parodied Superintendent Chris Kennedy on two previous occasions, taking his masterful Top Three List and brutalizing it a bit with my…
Producing Quality Assessment in Digital Portfolios
The digital portfolio embraces the challenge of making learning visible and mirrors quality assessment where the learning and student choice, voice and ownership are central and core. How does one capture quality assessment evidence and produce an ongoing digital portfolio for every student? The point is not to regulate but to re-orientate what we…
Anticipating the Future
The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Ghandi Our district is exploring our vision of Learning by Design. We are examining how manipulating the variables of traditional structures, simple & complex tools, and learning strategies can deepen the learning experience for students.We create these important conversations through the Engaging the Digital Learner Series….
The Sharing Continues
Our Engaging the Digital Learner: Learning by Design series continues to be a motivational, inspirational and informative event for the 280 educators that join us each evening. The sessions are designed so we hear learning stories through four Ignite presentations, with table talk in-between, dinner for more continued conversation and then an opportunity to hear a…
Innovation in Action: Learning by Design
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. …
A Window into Learning
“We’re trying to boil it down to what do parents really want and need to know about a child’s progress in school? How can we give parents a window into class?…We believe traditional report cards are highly ineffective in communicating to parents where their children are in learning. If we can communicate this learning routinely…
The Best & The Worst of Times
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was…
I still want the revolution
“I still want the revolution. I want things to be different.” Sharon Jeroski, Horizons Research, MOE Curriculum Transformation Lead The change and transformation is really not about curriculum. It is actually about how we engage students in learning & what we do in classrooms with our students. A B.C. Teacher’s feedback on MOE Curriculum Transformation The opportunity to learn…
Innovative Learning Designs: MakerSpaces Project
Changes in educational possibility arise as new media alter the ways of knowing and the opportunities for participating in the creation of knowledge. Robbie McClintock The Invitation to Maker Space One key to transformation in education is helping students reimagine what is possible. Students who imagine printing structures they designed are…