Wow! This would be quite a change in our educational system. I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I can see some of the advantages. According to the article, schools would no longer be held to “seat time” or credits to graduate high school students. Instead students would take a battery of...
This is a valuable download from “Before & After” magazine. I am a definitely a design novice, and I always struggle with color choices in my presentations. This free pdf will not only help me, but I plan on making it available for my students to use as a reference.
What a great example of Meaning from Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind. Students design quilt patterns in geometry class, and then use those patterns to make quilts in their consumer sciences course. I know that as a parent in an age of abundance, I am always looking for ways to teach my child...
You can’t beat real-world application. They provide both Symphony and Meaning to any subject. These students designed earthquake resistant buildings for a fictitious city in Japan. Through an unfortunate turn of events, the devastation in Haiti occurred during this project. In a poignant way students could see the importance of their work. In the...
I’ve been promising that I would post this Story Board Template that I shared at TechNet. For those of you who have not used Dan Pink’s Story in your classrooms, the template should give you an easy way to start. In my history classes, I have students create a fictional history story using the...
This past Friday I had the honor of being a presenter at the annual KC TechNet conference. I conducted a morning session over implementing Dan Pink’s 21st Century skills from A Whole New Mind into the classroom. The session went extremely well, and I think that the participants left with a great framework for...
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