Big Ideas Fest, 2018
It was an honor to share my work at the Big Ideas Fest! Click on the picture below to view the slide deck, including links to student projects in the presenter notes.
Pedagogy
Teaching Media Literacy and the Mental Environment
At a time when the constant stream of information around us feels overwhelming and fraught, students need tools to help them decode, analyze, and process. Many educators have written recently about the need to identify Fake News. This is certainly true but this call ignores the fact that students, and citizens, need the skills necessary […]Read Post ›
Letting Students Succeed as Themselves
[Cross-posted on Edutopia] For many students, the experience of school is a series of lessons on the necessity of submerging their primary identity and culture in order to succeed academically. These students are repeatedly taught about “appropriate” behavior and that the path through school, and many parts of life, is easier if one conforms to […]Read Post ›
Encouraging Students to Own Their Work
[Cross-posted on Edutopia] Learning changes dramatically when students have opportunities to produce work that matters to them. We know this from our own lives but don’t always do a good job of honoring it in schools. It’s easy for me to recall times when I dragged my feet completing a task, or rushed through a […]Read Post ›
Design Your Own Learning, 2016-17
Once again my students and I are deep in the process of investigating and creating. During class they are either with me or in different parts of our school or city, interviewing, researching, and drafting. I wrote before about my personal challenge of letting go in order to let this type of learning happen. In January […]Read Post ›
