About a year ago, Howard Gardner wrote an article in Foreign Policy about personalized education. Here are a few excerpts:
Throughout most of history, only the wealthy have been able to afford an education geared to the individual learner. For the rest of us, education has remained a mass affair, with standard curricula, pedagogy, and [...]
keep reading →This morning I played tennis with a friend of mine in his seventies, and we observed that the way many classrooms function hasn’t changed much since he was a student.
In the meantime, the way we generate, sort, analyze, distribute and share information has changed dramatically. Likewise, the tools we possess to communicate with each [...]
keep reading →“People are hungry to learn new things. But traditional learning confines us to stiff, stagnant curricula that are outdated and boring. If we temper rigid structure with some freedom, while still providing challenge and guidance, learners’ motivation soars. I believe that people become more engaged when they have the ability to shape the experience themselves [...]
keep reading →I adapted this framework from the book Disrupting Class and from Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory. My goal is not to propose the ‘right’ way, but rather to demonstrate that even with a few variables you end up with many different customized lesson plans (in this case, 8 x 3 x 3 = 72).
How long are you willing to sit in a room with 25 or 30 people? Imagine that a non-profit you support has a meeting, and it stretches 5 1/2 hours. Is that too long?
It’s common sense that 30 people sitting together won’t accomplish much. If you really want to get something done, sooner or [...]
keep reading →How a South Carolina elementary school has used computers to engage students in a learning process calibrated to their individual needs and abilities. Read story or go directly to resources/downloads from Forest Lake Elementary School.
keep reading →Nothing frustrates me more than lazy, old-fashioned cookie-cutter teaching.
I’m talking about teachers who stand up and lecture, who have one strategy and one strategy only for getting students to learn, and who care more about doing things their way than helping kids learn.
I’m also talking about administrators and school boards that tolerate – [...]
keep reading →“The baby boom, ” says Derrick Chasan of CogniFit, “Is the first generation that both has access to cognitive fitness programs and is aware of the fact that exercising your cognitive abilities helps you keep them sharp.” In other words, use it or lose it.
The problem is that you get very good at what [...]
keep reading →Tales of Disruption
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