Big Ideas in Education Blog

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  • To Benefit Student Learning: Facilitating New Opportunities for Collaborative Inquiry, Action Research, Innovation

    Today, it is imperative that we make changes to our traditional school paradigms to meet the learning needs of our students for today and their futures. We need to reimagine how we structure our schools to promote ongoing daily collaboration opportunities for teachers for the purposes of planning, with the explicit goal of improving student…

  • ‘Quiet’? or ‘Conversational’ Classrooms

    ‘Quiet’? or ‘Conversational’ Classrooms

    The term ‘Quiet’ in our traditional school classrooms, often equates to ‘compliance’. This was very important when our traditional school system was built over 100 years ago. It was essential that we had compliance from our students to adequately train them for the industrial era. When I think of quiet classrooms, I think about the…

  • Cultivating Knowledge in Virtual Spaces

      There are vast amounts of ‘blank’ spaces in our virtual worlds. The empty virtual spaces will eventually be filled with knowledge. But who’s knowledge will have the privilege of being promoted?  I believe that this is an issue that we need to be concerned about particularly in light of current events in the issue…