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Instead of studying history for one year at the university, you can watch this video for less than five minutes.

recent posts thanksgiving play again learning from indigenous knowledge systems exporting the DDT style of education welcome November 24th, 2010 by cblack Posted in blog One Comment » thanksgiving Share| A thought on Thanksgiving: What would North America be like today if Europeans had tried to learn from Native Americans rather than to conquer and then “teach?

If Native American wisdom about children and learning – about the ways of teaching through storytelling rather than direct instruction, through example and experience rather than lecture and text, through immersion in community and nature rather than segregation in a school building, and through personal challenge and transformation rather than confinement and obedience – existed today side by side with European-style schools and universities as options among the commonly accepted ways for young people to learn and grow to adulthood?

John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production

John Seely Brown Lecture on Learning in the Digital Age

Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes.

Diana Laufenberg teaches 11th-grade American History at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia

The following are some of the key points from today’s session. You don’t need a snow day to start flipping your class Don’t wait for an unplanned day to try some of these techniques and technologies. Start now and make this a new norm in your teaching.

Try to avoid the “lecture” as a way to deliver content from a distance. Allow for experiential learning, interactions and collaboration.

Artifact of understanding. This is something that the student creates that captures the student’s level of understanding through synthesis of the material. This can be anything from a reflective blog post to videos, sound recordings, media presentations, artwork, creative writing, collection of images with reflective text etc. Match the artifact of understanding with the nature and complexity of the material being explored.