One summer afternoon when I was 23 — this was in 1987 — I was twiddling the dial on the radio in the apartment I was subletting on 114th St. when I stumbled on a station that was unlike anything that
A little more than a year ago, I remember sitting in meetings trying to figure out how we might do remote learning for a week or so to contain the novel coronavirus. I cringe now realizing that we wer
Our pedagogical approaches need to be directly influenced by what we know of our students, and also by what we don’t yet know. We need to stop writing inflexible policies for hypothetical students. In fact, we should carefully read everything we communicate to students in advance of a course to be…
1.6k SHARES Share It’s easy to remember the highlight reels of the project-based approach I used when I taught eighth grade. I think about the moment we finished our second mural and my students were
By Seymour Papert I have had a lot of flack from people who read this column (and other things I have written) as advocating taking the hard work and discipline out of learning. I don't blame them. I
Combating Zoom Overload with Reverse Meetings March 18th, 2021 · 10 comments In a recent episode of my podcast , I dove deep on the topic of meeting overload during our current moment of pandemic-indu
I’ve loved electronics ever since I was a kid. In 6th grade, after saving up for five years, I built a PC that was better than any computer I could find. Throughout middle school, I tinkered with wiri
Share this article EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP November 2011 The Case Against Grades By Alfie Kohn [This is a slightly expanded version of the published article.] “I remember the first time that a grading
The strength of a nation’s economy and the vitality of its society depend on the quality of its schools . So why does the UK still lag behind its peers, despite investing more than them? The 2012 OECD
Creating a digital portfolio is one of the most important choices you can make for your career. Here are five pieces you should include to create a digital portfolio that will get you noticed. Do you
The text for my flipped keynote at Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020 . I’ve never created a model for online, digital, or hybrid pedagogies. As long as I’ve been teaching, and as long as I’ve been teaching te
I have a rubric that took over ten years of teaching college English to develop. Want to see it? I think it’s pretty good. I put a lot of thought into what I wanted to see in my students’ writing, and