Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
I haven’t read A Place Called School. Yet. But it’s one of those books that comes up when I talk to and listen to and read folks who talk, listen and write about what schools are and what they might yet be. And this piece on its author, John Goodlad, who died earlier this month, […]
Read More Trusting People, Who “Will Do Dumb Things,” to Make Their Own DecisionsReply All is a new podcast I’ve been enjoying lately. It’s a “show about the Internet.” Their third episode featured Ethan Zuckerman, an Internet pioneer, apologizing for a very bad thing he did twenty years ago, a thing that really helped to shape the world we live in today. (9Or, at least, the Internet we […]
Read More The Danger of “Good Enough”One of the really difficult things about giving students meaningful choices is that they will sometimes make horrible ones. This isn’t a school problem, so much, as it is a democracy problem. And I’ve met plenty of people who don’t feel that all adults are able to make good choices, either. People don’t always make […]
Read More Allowing (And Accepting) Students' Choices Is HardIt’s probably a month or two ago now that I was talking with my friend Ben about programming and some of the work that he’s exploring and that I’m involved in. There’s a project in my school district, folks working to figure out how to encourage computer science as the “fourth r” alongside reading, ‘riting, […]
Read More When Programming Becomes PersuasionTonight, we held our first in a series of informal meet ups intended to help build collegiality and shared expertise around being a 1:1 school district. Michelle named these events iPad Geekouts, or, for short, iGO. During tonight’s event, I was responsible for facilitating some sharing and conversation around shifts and issues relating to technology […]
Read More “Don’t Use the iPad Just to Use the iPad”