Tag Archive For "transformative learning"
To Reduce Plagiarism, Increase Joy, and Create Conditions for Learning that Sticks: Ask Students to Transform Content
Schools suited for the 21st century do not ask students to regurgitate content, but, instead, to transform it. What exactly does this mean? It means that students combine what they learn with their perspective, or their personality, or their aesthetics, or their creativity, or all of these, to produce something that has not existed before. …
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Teaching Students with Disabilities as Transformative Learning
When the virus first broke, some schools initially deposited the whole idea of online instruction in the too-hard pile, hesitating to offer classes for any students rather than attempting to fulfill their legal and ethical obligations to serve all students, especially those with disabilities. Clearly, if educators fail to attempt in good faith and to …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]