Category Archives: Classroom Culture
Edutopia: Lovely Post about “Wonder shelves”-cum-Makerspace
From Rafranz Davis’s “Embracing Student Creativity with a Wonder Shelf” on Edutopia’s Maker Education blog: A few years ago, the wonder shelves housed our classroom math manipulatives sorted into individual or group containers. I knew that I wanted our learning … Continue reading
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Learning spaces reinvisioned as sandboxes, not labs
What are we doing, as educators and librarians, to promote exploratory, discovery, inquiry-oriented, and social learning in our schools? Here’s what Bentley University in Massachusetts is doing: From Computer Lab to Sandbox — Campus Technology via kwout Cost is the … Continue reading
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Strategies for Increasing Classroom Buy-In
I’m really lucky. I rarely have a student with an entitlement attitude. But still, I find this advice from Inside Higher Ed to be helpful in thinking about creating engagement in the classroom: Views: Antidote for Entitled ‘Customers’ – … Continue reading
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