by KP | Oct 2, 2012 | Education
via The Difference. …it’s not enough to embed technology. It’s possible to embed technology in every aspect of teaching and learning and it still be a completely teacher-centred classroom. The teacher is in control of what is learned, how it’s learned and for a...
by KP | Sep 30, 2012 | Education
Via Education Rethink: Homework and the Real World: Homework is often justified with the “real world” argument. When I point out that kids should have the freedom to learn independently, play around with friends and socialize in their free time, I hear the...
by KP | Sep 28, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear is the title of this talk, presented by the RSA and cross-posted over at Teaching Excellence. Why would you need to learn facts? Because everybody has – within millimeters of their skin, at most of the time they are...
by KP | Sep 26, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
Studio music sets the tone to many days. The studio’s learning rhythm is seldom lecture-based, and much more often practice-based. Â This week in Ceramics I is the first week on the wheel, and I’m not allowing the students to make… anything. Â Not a...
by KP | Sep 25, 2012 | Education
This is a buzzing year at my school. You can hear a buzz of teachers trying to quickly integrate technology into their classes, under the new charge of “21st Century Education.” The students are buzzing, because their teachers are trying new approaches. ...
by KP | Sep 10, 2012 | Ceramics, Education
I assigned my Ceramics students to watch Staley’s video, and then to answer the following question (among other prompts) in their sketchbook: Â “Do you think creativity can be taught? Â Why or why not?”Here’s a selection of what I got in...
