The following is a post that I just wrote for the Canadian Education Association website. It’s the beginning of a deeper look into the Flipped Classroom, the assumptions that it challenges and the new spaces for teaching and learning that could be emerging. Supporters applaud the space that the Flipped Classroom provides for deeper and [...]
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Moving to the Edge
Rino Ferruccio and I began our teaching careers together almost 30 years ago. I was always inspired by Rino’s love of geography and his desire to “know exactly where he was in the world”. For Rino, places located on the coast gave him the best sense of “place”. I thought of Rino this week as [...]
Discovering the Hidden Talent of Schools
hen I shared the Kelli Anderson TEDx talk, Designing to Challenge Reality in March 20th’s post, I expected that I might think about it for the day, talk to a few people about it and then move on. Instead, I’ve actually integrated it into the networking sessions that I have been running this week with [...]
Putting the Value in Evaluation
Not surprisingly, I didn’t spend a whole lot of my final day at the Ontario Education Research Symposium thinking and talking about what the organizers wanted me to be thinking and talking about. Not surprisingly, something said by one of the participants on the morning plenary panel got my mind veering off into a totally [...]
The Elephant Eco-system
Some of the respondents to my recent Elephants in the Room entry have agreed to write a guest post dealing with an issue in education that we are reluctant to talk about. Today, Tim King kicks begins our week with The Elephant Ecosystem. Thanks to Tom for accepting my invitation to keep the conversation going, [...]
Herding Elephants!
Yesterday’s post on identifying the elephants in the room when it comes to talking about educational change generated a great deal of activity. From a statistical perspective, traffic on this site was up over 600% which is exciting, but it also says something about the value of the question. The prospect of talking about what doesn’t normally [...]
