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2018-The Year For Living Dangerously

By Bruce Dixon

2018-The Year For Living Dangerously

Well, 2018 has certainly kicked off with some extremes. In the first week of the year, we saw -37°C on top of Mount Washington in NH US, while on the same day in Melbourne Australia it was +37°C. (that’s  -36°F to +100°F ) I'm glad I had the beaches, but I'm tipping this is a sign of things to come in 2018. So, while maybe you’ve started your New Year by drawing from the traditional bin of resolutions around fitness, weight loss, and work-life balance, I want to suggest that 2018 is the year for living dangerously...so make your resolutions accordingly. In case you have forgotten, it's been 18 years since we kidded ourselves that a new millennium would herald new ideas and some radical thinking around what modern schooling could and should be. Unfortunately, we grabbed the 21st Century tag and stuck it on anything that moved, and before we knew it, everything pretty much stayed the same. So much for waiting a thousand years to see change in our schools. Well, now we can put … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Newsletter, Shifting Conversations January 16, 2018

Modern Learners Newsletter #222: Confused Yet?

By Will Richardson

Modern Learners Newsletter #222: Confused Yet?

Greetings Fellow Internet Edu-Wayfarers, Another week gone by in our quest to break down the boxes in our brains that define what school is. How we doing with that? Bruce is traipsing through the wine country of New Zealand this week where, (did you hear?) the new government is breaking boxes left and right. End of standardized tests. End of league tables. End of other stuff. May there be a strong northeasterly wind blowing that stuff in this direction. Anyway, no shortage of great things to read in the eduverse this week. Here's to being challenged. ~Will PS: Our 3rd cohort of Change School "graduates" on Monday. But Cohort 4 starts in January!...sign up to get notified! 1. Not Fewer Grades...No Grades Jesse Stommel is one of my favorite higher ed thinkers, and his latest post on grading is a great example why. He hasn't given grades in his courses for his entire 17-year career, and the reasoning reeks of common sense and, to some extent, courage. And talk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Newsletter November 4, 2017

Modern Learners Newsletter #221: The Labor of Learning

By Will Richardson

Modern Learners Newsletter #221: The Labor of Learning

Greetings Fellow Internet Edu-Wayfarers, Great to have you back for some more inspired reading this week, now in blog post form! Better to interact with you with! I've been thinking a lot about change this week as we "downsized" our lives into a much smaller, 160+ year old home in the little country town where I've lived most of my life. I was thinking about how some of the time, we choose to change. Other times, change chooses us. I wonder which reality fits most schools. ~Will PS: Our 3rd cohort of Change School is drawing to a close. But Cohort 4 starts in January!...sign up to get notified! 1. The Future of Truth is...Undecided As the attack on facts continues to grow, the Pew Research Center for Internet and Technology decided to interview a group of forward thinkers and ask them if they think we'll find ways to solve that problem or if it will only get worse. Turns out, it's about a 50-50 split: Their reasoning revealed a wide range of opinions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Newsletter October 28, 2017

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