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I showed this to two of my classes. They loved it.  I loved it too!

adventuresinlearning:

bumbleful:

adventuresinlearning:

This is one of the best examples of why we need to allow students to follow their passions in schools, and why we need to bring back mentor-ship relationship in society and allow students to really learn with adults, not just sit in rooms and fill out worksheets or answer text book or teacher driven questions. I highly recommend this movie. Streaming on netflix now!

I remember that for all those five years of high school (way back when…), we all have to fill out these papers (with a bunch of questions) near the end of each year, discussing what our future plans are. Before graduation, we had to write in detail about our “five-year” and “ten-year” plans for after high school. These plans, specifically, were supposed to be sent to the local school-board office.

With all of that, yet not once did my homeroom teachers ask us what we would like to do and what our passions are. No face-to-face discussions; just paper after paper.

I think to show that it is okay to follow one’s own passions, teachers and adults should strike an authentic dialogue with children and youth. But from my experience, the teachers/professors who didn’t encourage me to pursue my passions are those who haven’t discovered their own.

^this

this definitely sums up how I currently feel about FB.  Sry!

wow—a great take on edtech

food for thought when you’re buying food!

Awesome, true venn diagram about college websites!

this is why I can’t get with education for the sole purpose of training future employees!

sanityscraps:

otherwise-occupied:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed Friday evening that public school janitors be replaced by children in order to help solve the income gap in America.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/20/gingrich-proposes-replacing-janitors-with-9-year-old-kids-gets-mic-checked-by-occupy-boston/

(via adventuresinlearning)

coolcatteacher:

6 companies control most of the media you consume. Yet another reason to build your own RSS with some “real” people in the stream.

partydressjs:

nevver:

Freedom of Choice [more]

Scary thought?