Comments - thoughts on a Saturday morning - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T10:58:31Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=649749%3ABlogPost%3A14781&xn_auth=noKevin,
Thank you for the kin…tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-12:649749:Comment:149262007-05-12T20:40:22.543ZGinger Lewmanhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GingerTPLC
Kevin,<br />
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Thank you for the kind words about my students. While I'd like to take credit for the thinking/conversation that went on yesterday (and I'm no stranger to taking credit), I'm afraid these kids are simply plants who are looking for just the right soil. I just happen to have the real estate they like and also I've been able to get out of their way on the road to learning. There's still so much work to do and many more roads to travel.<br />
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Folks, be looking at the "Driving Questions" podcast…
Kevin,<br />
<br />
Thank you for the kind words about my students. While I'd like to take credit for the thinking/conversation that went on yesterday (and I'm no stranger to taking credit), I'm afraid these kids are simply plants who are looking for just the right soil. I just happen to have the real estate they like and also I've been able to get out of their way on the road to learning. There's still so much work to do and many more roads to travel.<br />
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Folks, be looking at the "Driving Questions" podcast at the iTunes store, or Kevin's personal page here to sit in on this amazing visit with real children. I think the title will have something to do with kids or education "in jeopardy." Skip,
After having read your…tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-12:649749:Comment:149232007-05-12T20:34:44.366ZGinger Lewmanhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GingerTPLC
Skip,<br />
After having read your comments on so many other posts, as well as mine, you are MOST CERTAINLY welcome to attend virtually. As arrangements are becoming more solid (after May 28), we'll be in touch!
Skip,<br />
After having read your comments on so many other posts, as well as mine, you are MOST CERTAINLY welcome to attend virtually. As arrangements are becoming more solid (after May 28), we'll be in touch! After a long dialogue with yo…tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-12:649749:Comment:148022007-05-12T15:55:35.523ZKevinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/kevinh
After a long dialogue with your students yesterday, I was so amazed. I have never had so dynamic a discourse about the need for education change as I did with your learners. They can not only clearly articulate the short-comings of the current system with regard to their real needs in a changing world but their solutions were the stuff of doctoral thesis'. The quality of their thinking and the authenticity and passion of their points of view, made this the clearest look I've had this year into…
After a long dialogue with your students yesterday, I was so amazed. I have never had so dynamic a discourse about the need for education change as I did with your learners. They can not only clearly articulate the short-comings of the current system with regard to their real needs in a changing world but their solutions were the stuff of doctoral thesis'. The quality of their thinking and the authenticity and passion of their points of view, made this the clearest look I've had this year into what learners must have to be prepared for a very different world.<br />
I believe that they should be in the middle of any curriculum design work that is done and that they are experts of their own needs. They get that they need to have appreciation of core curricular areas and they want to blend 21st century approaches to that content. I had my mind stretched and expectations surpassed by quantum leaps yesterday and if this is the product of the environment you've been tending then I think TPLC is as exciting a place as I've been in education. I say let's partner with those fresh, insightful minds to create a curriculum that is seamless and without borders or boundaries. Dang it--this thing used to h…tag:www.classroom20.com,2007-05-12:649749:Comment:147822007-05-12T15:29:14.921ZGinger Lewmanhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/GingerTPLC
Dang it--this thing used to have paragraphs.
Dang it--this thing used to have paragraphs.