Month: March 2020

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Being More Flexible

Jason Simon

This article was originally published at SchoolRubric.com on 8 March 2020. I’m fortunate to have spent the past five years at a school that values experimentation. It’s exciting and inspiring as a teacher and, on a personal level, dovetails nicely with my own novelty bias. So, when my school announced in early 2019 that it was constructing a few prototype flexible learning spaces on campus for teachers to work on teaching and collaborating differently, I was one of the early volunteers to be involved. With the high school space, we considered it a good opportunity to put many of our … Continue reading Being More Flexible

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Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age (Book Review)

Jason Simon

Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age by Lee Crockett My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s not the fault of these authors or their perfectly fine book that it reads like virtually every other idealistic book about transforming education for the 21st century/digital age/new millennium. 20th century bad. Industrial model of schools. Dewey. 21st century good. Jobs that don’t exist yet. Internet and technology. Essentially, that Sir Ken Robinson video with that hand drawing things that every teacher has seen a dozen times now at conferences and professional development workshops. Now here are the 5 … Continue reading Literacy Is NOT Enough: 21st Century Fluencies for the Digital Age (Book Review)