106: Empower Students as Creators – Monica Burns chats with us about empowering students as creators, and the power of purposefully checking in with others every day. 

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Speaker, author, and consultant, Monica Burns, chats with us about empowering students as creators, giving kids opportunities to work on projects big and small, and the power of purposefully checking in with others every day. Episode Highlights 2:00 – Rae interrupts Jeff to talk about her classroom…because it’s all about Rae. 3:04 – Rae loves Seesaw. 6:32 – Chatting about … Read More

Moving to Dynamic Learning

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Moving to Dynamic Learning

In This Post: We need to create classrooms where students are the ones defending and explaining their ideas, rather than regurgitating facts. We need to make projects, and classrooms in general, more dynamic. Tech tools, such as Seesaw, Flipgrid, and others, can be used to make ordinary experiences more dynamic. This only works when combined with the endless creativity and … Read More