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The Paper Bullet: Making the Digital World Tangible
In this rapidly growing space of personalized learning, there is a digital solution for each and every component that is needed to shift traditional schools to student-centric. We can wax poetic on which platform is best suited to meet students’ needs, and we can get excited about the robust and rigorous playlists we have procured using open source content. Employing an innovative use of space…
Reactive vs. Proactive: Lessons I’ve Learned From The Armchair
Reactive: Done in response to a problem or situation: reacting to problems when they occur instead of doing something to prevent them.
School administrators are not expected to predict the future, but they are expected to be prepared for it. Without discernment and a game plan ready to go at all times, a principal leaves herself vulnerable to making hasty, and therefore uninformed,…
Student-Centered & Blended Learning: The Evolution of a Model…and Teacher (Part III)
Part III
Some have recently argued that standardized testing, as we currently know it, will be an obsolete practice within a decade. But as we still operate in the Matrix, how do we hold teachers and students accountable for their practices in an equitable manner? More importantly, how do we measure achievement within an SCL environment, where students learn and master content at their own…
Student-Centered & Blended Learning: The Evolution of a Model…and Teacher (Part II)
PART II
The most underrated film of 2013 was easily Pacific Rim. Many wrote if off as a campy robot vs. monster action flick, but it was so much more. In truth, it was the story of innovation, iteration, and how our ability to fuse technology with man-power could literally save the world. Sounds like blended learning, doesn’t it?
Much like the engineers worked to upgrade their…
Student-Centered & Blended Learning: The Evolution of a Model…and Teacher
PART I
When I originally took on the role as Blended Instruction Specialist with Matchbook Learning, I assumed all of my years as an effective teacher and technology coordinator would prepare me to build capacity with a group of educators hired to shape a brand-new district. Laughable.
The reality was I came from traditional education. The whole system of teaching and learning that I…