authentic learning

Bud Hunt suggests that teachers need time to explore, to wonder and question together. "Teaching is, and should be, a subversive activity." he says. ...

Christina Cantrill - 2013-02-24 14:22 - 0 comments

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Recently, a friend called me with concerns about her daughter's disinterest in the writing she was doing in school. Like many parents, she has fears about writing skills and what this might mean for her ...

Kim Jaxon - 2012-07-06 10:25

In the run up to the MacArthur Foundation's  Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco, making is on my mind. The ways that we make to learn, learn to make, and the composing processes ...

Christina Cantrill - 2012-02-29 09:33 - 0 comments

Educators offer instruction, support, guidance, opportunities, challenges, resources, but how do teaching and learning really occur in out-of-school media literacy education programs? This resource ...

Joslyn Young - 2011-09-29 17:38

Reflecting about the implementation of our Maker pilot here in the Central Coast region of California, I often go exploring among my roots in childhood experiences of progressive education (meaning ...

Fred Mindlin - 2011-03-07 10:03