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Personalized Learning
The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Hybrid Environments
[…] know Organize content around topics rather than single standards Provide choice in how students fulfill learning objectives Shift #2: Learning Process. Led by Content → Led by Inquiry Scheduling in 2020-2021 will be a nightmare if organizing learning around content minutia. Rosie Westall, an early years educator at the Steiner Waldorf School in Hong Kong, […]
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Future of Learning
The Story of Transforming A System: Spring Grove Schools
[…] quite distinctly. We moved music education to the gym and outdoors when feasible, we ordered new masks and equipment, and we started to offer a new Music Inquiry course. If students felt safer or more engaged with independent and small-group music experiences, they created their own learning plans for success. Students wrote their own […]
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Place Based Education
Place & Peace Based Learning: James’ story
[…] during a silent reading time led us down a path of immense undertaking. It was a classic example of ‘generative emergence’ that so often occurs in place-based inquiry, almost always from a student’s contribution. A student was reading a history of Black Hawk, the Sauk chief who defied U.S. treaties, when she looked up […]
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Future of Learning
Podcast: Exploring Inquiry with Kimberly Mitchell
By: Getting Smart Staff. On today's podcast, Kimberly Mitchell speaks about her new book, Experience Inquiry: 5 Powerful Strategies, 50 Practical Experiences, that explores five strategies any teacher or parent can use to promise inquiry and curiosity.
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Learning Design
Redesigning School: Six Key Pillars From Six of the Most Innovative Schools and Programs
[…] you make learning more fluid for students? What adults could you bring in? Which subjects might you combine around deeper learning experiences? Pillar #2: Learning Centered on Inquiry: Inquiry-Based Learning at Innovations Academy, San Diego All meaningful learning begins with a provocative question. Finding that question is at the core of what Innovations Academy, a […]
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Project-Based Learning
Santa Ynez Valley Union High: An Organic Project-Based Learning Journey
[…] Ynez Valley Union High School on California’s central coast. After a few years away from a high school campus, my goal was to make instruction – specifically deeper, inquiry-based learning – my priority. Over the past seven years, I have been fortunate enough to dive deep into problem and project-based learning. This includes research, professional […]
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Equity & Access
The Power of Process In Deeper Learning: A Case Study in Scaffolding
[…] classroom engaged in introspection, reflection, and metacognition. I don’t need to tell you how rare that is in a school setting. This classroom was filled with student inquiry, as learners reflected on the field trip they had done the week before on a community farm. They were pouring through multimedia evidence of the experience, […]
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EdTech
Can Tech Help Reset Our Expectations?: Packback, Inquiry-Based Learning and the Power of AI
[…] and sparking their motivation to practice and improve without the teacher even needing to be involved. As history teacher William McHenry told me, “Since I have implemented inquiry-based discussion in my classes, I have focused more on being a facilitator rather than having ‘control’ of the learning in my classroom. I now expect students […]
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Equity & Access
The Equity Continuum: Cultivating an Equity Mindset in Classroom Global Partnerships
[…] inequitable action can actually do a lot of harm. In educational partnerships mired in the savior complex, one classroom “solves” the other community’s challenges, often without significant inquiry into their needs and aspirations—and certainly without consideration of that community’s own potential solutions. To avoid building partnerships focused this way, educators can build more community […]
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EdTech
Looking Behind the Screen: Critical Media Literacy Gives Us Tools to Understand How Media Shapes Our Perception of Others and the World
[…] you dislike something, right? Not always! “Critical” can be used in a variety of ways, including thinking carefully about something (critical thinking), asking questions of something (critical inquiry), and practicing media literacy (critical media literacy). So, what’s critical about critical media literacy (CML)? Trust us, this is not an order to “eat your spinach!” […]
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