• What Do Parents Think About Online Gradebooks? – The Atlantic

  tags: grades online_grading assessment online_gradebooks #MustRead

• Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework – Salon.com

  tags: homework #MustRead

  • If the assignment does not promote greater love of school and interest in learning, then it has no place in an elementary school-aged child’s day.

• The Power of Creative Cross Training: How Experimentation Creates Possibility – 99u

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: learning cross-training creativity associate #fsbl #observationjournal idiploma #mustread #mvifishares

• Empowering Teachers to Empower Young People — A New Game — Medium

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: self-empowered changemakers #MustRead ##mvifishares idiploma iDiplomaSeminar

  • Within the limits imposed by our genes, the extent to which we become self-empowered is determined to a very large extent by the experiences we have throughout childhood and adolescence.
  • If we want the new world to become our better world, then we need to give every young person access to coherent experiences — in and out of school. Experiences that are woven and scaffolded throughout their childhood and adolescence — and in which adults and young people are consciously helping each other become self-empowered.

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