Posts by Kyle Wagner
How to Give Students Future-Ready Skills Through Community Service
With community-engaged projects, students learn to solve problems, think creatively, manage uncertainty, and most importantly, how to coordinate and work with others. According to The World Economic Forum, these are the same top 5 future skills needed for 2020.
A Blended Environment: The Future of AI and Education
For many of us, using AI in our schools seems light years away. But by slowly and consciously embracing it, we can start to make the shifts necessary for the 21st-Century classroom.
Can Students Learn Entirely on their Own?
Students are capable of learning and organizing themselves completely on their own if they have the freedom to explore, are engaged in authentic and meaningful experiences, and have the chance to exhibit their work. Here's one example.
Want Authentic PBL? Take Students to the Farm
This was not a hypothetical project, dreamed up in a classroom far removed from the outside world. It was a real project with real problems, consequences and opportunities for growth.
5 Tech-Free Classroom Innovations, and Ideas for Getting Started
We don’t need unlimited funding or fancy high-tech toys to innovate our practice. Often, we just need to think differently. Here are five simple tech-free innovative learning experiences that will help you and your students think differently.
How to “Pick the Lock”: The Five Secrets to One Stone’s Success
One Stone thrives because it places students at the center. Here, I take a deeper look at the techniques they use to develop and maintain their culture.
5 Conditions Necessary for School-Wide Innovation
Many schools rush into innovating without putting the structures in place to support it, and when the dust settles they realize they haven’t made the large-scale impact they were hoping for. Here's how schools can change that.