6. What If…

“What if…” the question that experiments enabled science to ask and spreadsheets enabled business to ask, can now become the question every student can ask. Learning can now be joined to creativity. Our kids can view learning as a creative experience in the fullest sense of those words, to enable them to thrive in this new digital age.

 

  1. Core Values
  2. Technology Created it, Technology Will Solve it
  3. The Curriculum of Tomorrow 
  4. The Teacher of Tomorrow 
  5. The Student of Tomorrow 
  6. Unifying Curriculum and Instruction 
  7. Technology and the 4Cs 
  8. Creativity 
  9. Critical Thinking 
  10. Collaboration and Communication 
  11. Promoting Choice 
  12. Promoting Concentration
  13. Promoting Assets 
  14. Technology 
  15. Relevant 
  16. Effective
  17. Efficient
  18. Liberal Arts and The Invention of Knowledge
  19. Open-Web Testing 
  20. Open-Web Schools
  21. Make it Change

 

Chapter 6. Explorations

Small Changes

Small changes, seemingly inconsequential acts, can have momentous repercussions. Dead birds set off the environmental movement. An assassin’s bullet protesting an exhausted empire started a… Read more

The Magic Wand

What if I could give you a magic wand to wave over our educational system and make it fulfill our dreams for our children? What… Read more

Empathy

Empathy is an odd idea to discuss in math or even in STEM/STEAM education. It is usually thought of as an issue in psychology or… Read more

“Algebra before Acne”

As I was again reading the Common Core Standards, I was struck by their introduction of variables in grade 6. Jim, I could not help… Read more

Minkowski’s Connections

I still feel it months later, the thrill and awe I knew from finding an answer to a question I have long been troubled by.… Read more

Learning to Swim

The University of Chicago is not known for its athletics, so when I entered it as a first-year student I was very surprised that I… Read more

Exhausted

Teaching done right has always been a hard job, but it is now substantially harder. Talk to any teacher and they will tell you that… Read more

The Los Alamos Primer

Or how to build an atomic bomb. One of the best curriculum ideas I ever had was to use this book as the text for… Read more