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shared by Bo Adams on 25 Jan 17 - No Cached

but if your kids aren’t engaged, it’s about agency, not technology
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The real fact is that grades don’t tell us much other than what students are able to remember for the test or how well they learned to play the game of school.
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shared by Bo Adams on 20 Jul 16 - No Cached

if the changes to education are all in the service of doing the same thing better, they may be missing the point.
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the current context demands a radically different vision of learning.
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examples of schools and districts that are asking themselves difficult questions to propel change. The successful ones are letting the answer to the question, “How do kids learn best?” drive everything they do in schools.
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education that is student-initiated, interdisciplinary and co-planned by students and teachers together
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“It’s about doing work that matters,” Richardson said. “It’s about connections. It’s about play. It’s about cultures where kids and teachers are learners.” When schools have a set of beliefs about learning and enact those beliefs through practice, but don’t anchor what they are doing in today’s context, they may be doing something progressive, but also a little irrelevant. Beliefs and contexts without practice leads to ineffective teaching. The sweet spot for a very different type of education system lies in the Venn diagram of all three: beliefs, context and practice.
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It can be difficult to interrogate longstanding policies and choices, but if districts, schools and individual educators can’t reflect on what’s working and what isn’t, articulate a change, and begin doing it, the education system as a whole will become irrelevant.
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