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Not necessarily creation vs consumption… Maybe creation vs learning?
The Useless Agony of Going Offline – The New Yorker During the world’s longest weekend, it became clear to me that, when I’m using my phone or surfing the Internet, I am almost always learning something. I’m using Google to find out what types of plastic bottles are the worst for human health, or determining…
Sharing: Project based learning should be medium agnostic
If It’s Not Medium Agnostic, It’s Not Project-Based Learning All types of rubrics (not just those created by students) are medium agnostic when the categories and descriptors are focused on learning, no tasks. For example, an excerpt from a poor rubric might read, “The poster includes at least 6 facts about the state and is…
Sharing: Checklist or Art Form? (via @gcouros)
Checklist or Art Form? What we teach is not really as important as how we teach. In my first years of education, those suggested activities were my lifeline. I needed them because I thought of teaching as more of a checklist, than an art form. “If I do this, then I will be able to say that…
To get better, do the things you’re bad at
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. We can always coast, do the things we’ve done a million times before, but does that offer any growth? We shouldn’t look at the term self-improvement as a negative. To some it implies…
Open-plan offices are terrible, yet most classrooms mimic the layout
A lot of businesses have moved or are moving to an open plan layout for their office space. This movement is under the assumption that social encounters are more valuable than deep work. However, recent studies have shown that this is not the case. In fact, employees in open plan offices are interrupted more frequently,…