Thanks to Eliott Washor, Founder of Big Picture Schools, for sharing your wisdom around the history of education and academia. Socratic dialogue is all about asking good questions. In fact, education in its purest form is about asking great questions.
Here is an example of pure brilliance, and I witnessed it first hand. Dreamer child’s mother calls and informs teacher, “I.K.” that her child is in severe distress and on her way to school. I.K. has a group hike scheduled for the entire class first thing in the morning. Dreamer child arrives at school at [...]
More Potency. More Adventure. Owning Your Potency The winner of our December-January E-News contest is Ryan Hoopes! His entry starts… “Wow, this article could not have come at a more perfect time. I encountered a situation last Friday night that fits perfectly with this article. This is the first time I have heard the phrase [...]
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In a remote area in the Calabasas hills, there is a stone building, an outdoor amphitheater, a tree house and a garden. Children come here each day, ages preschool through 5th grade, to follow their passion. The lessons are based on what they want to learn that day. A simple question to a teacher like, “How does a robot work?” can turn into months of instruction and international Skyping to engineer and build a working robot, just to see how it is done.
Generation Y is connected across time and space and can participate in virtual realities that their parents and grandparents could barely imagine. What’s going on in their heads? What do they want? How are they motivated?