by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
I’ll admit, my first response to closing school for 1.5 billion children worldwide was to think about the opportunity to finally shift our thinking about school to a vision for 2020 and beyond. I was excited to see so many thought leaders in education also trying to figure out how to do this. Then there […]
“Children in groups, can actually learn almost anything by themselves, using the internet, if you let them, and if they want to.” Sugata Mitra – #silverliningforlearning Episode 2 Teaching through a pandemic gives us the opportunity to rethink our role in student learning. Can we resist our first instinct to grab tightly to what we […]
How do we plan for exceptional distance learning while we are doing it? We have two things going on here. Schools are out, everyone is at home, and we are scrambling to meet the needs of our students right now, while everyone copes with a health crisis and an economic crisis (The Urgency) At the […]
I don’t know the learning needs of our children when their learning moves out of the school buildings. “Content delivery” might work for a few of our students, but real learning requires so much more from us. As Cathy Fosnot taught us, “If there is no learning, there has been no teaching.” As educators, how […]
