Yesterday, when I took a look at how it’s easier to make school work Google proof than it is to make school work AI proof, I said: How do we bolster creativity and productivity with AND without the use of Artificial Intelligence? This got me thinking about using AI effectively, and that led me to […]
As an athlete, I didn’t have very good body awareness. My swim stroke was awful and that’s tough to deal with as a water polo player. My coaches spent a lot of time trying to fix my stroke, and they’d have me try all sorts of drills and drill strokes, but I often wouldn’t feel […]
Six years ago in Philadelphia I ran a session at Educon on Failure. Bill Ferriter came to the session and after the interactive presentation he created this image: This was the premise I was working from, When is failure really a success? When we engage students in EPIC projects and challenges, the journey to success is often […]
The last few weeks have been busy. That is a statement I could probably say at any given point in the school year, but specifically I’ve been task busy recently. What I mean is that my day disappears with me doing what I need to do and not at all what I want to do. […]
I’ve written a lot about learning and failure. In a post titled, Learning Through Failure vs Failing to Learn, I said, “When we talk about learning from failure, we are not actually talking about failure, we are talking about perseverance, and resilience, and tenacity. We are talking about coming up to resistance and unplanned outcomes […]
This was my Facebook memory from 3 years ago: Spent well over 15hrs at work today and came home totally pumped! Students rocked their presentations at our open house tonight. The whole event exceeded my expectations, starting with about 240 people coming (more than I had reservations or seats for), and ending with students interviewing […]
We talk a lot about learning through failure, but not a lot about failing to learn. When we fail because of lack of resources, lack of support, lack of knowledge, and/or lack of reflection, it’s just a failure. We do not necessarily learn. When we talk about learning from failure, we are not actually talking […]
When students get time in their day to solve interesting problems, they need to learn to ask questions that go beyond Google. The problem isn’t interesting enough and worth solving if the answer is easy to find, if the data has already been collected, if the information is readily available. If students are asking interesting […]
Here is the video from the BIG Question Institute Webinar teachers John Sarte, Al Soiseth, and I did on our school, Inquiry Hub Secondary. (On Vimeo) Here is the comment I wrote on the webinar recording page on the BIG Questions Institute site. Thanks for the opportunity to share Will, it was great to connect. […]
Yesterday Inquiry Hub teacher John Sarte and I did a webinar with Will Richardson. In it, we shared the ‘Every Learner is a Hero’ whiteboard model we’ve been developing. I realize that this was drawn over 2 years ago and yet this was the first time we shared it in full. There is a lot […]
