If you’ve been following the posts at We Teach We Learn, you know that a healthy percentage of posts have been about brain-based gender differentiation. So we were thrilled when We Teach We Learn recently received a comment from Lise Eliot, an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science. What she says, however, might surprise you.
Read more ›“It’s the 21st Century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie…. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.”
Read more ›“Many people set aside their passions to pursue things they don’t care about for the sake of financial security. The fact is, though, that the job you took because it “pays the bills” could easily move offshore in the coming decade. If you have never learned to think creatively and to explore your true capacity, what will you do then?”
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I’ve been teaching for three years at St. Croix Falls Middle School, but have recently had to relocate to Stanley-Boyd, where they feel that they’re a good school, but are ready to make the push to be great. They’ve got a lot of big ideas, with the PLC being the most prominent. So, as a new teacher, I was recently able to attend a PLC conference facilitated by Eric Twaddle to learn about some of the expectations of my new school.
Read more ›Building Your Own Personal Learning Network from Carl Anderson on Vimeo.
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