Hope you enjoyed your weekend! I just wanted to send a note about guru guides and our upcoming webinar. As a reminder, here’s our calendar for the next month: May 21 – Finish your online resource guide in form and content areas. Make sure your files are clearly labeled (and if you have multiple files, include… Read more »

Just a quick reminder that you should be finishing up your guru guide drafts this week and have a finished draft by May 21, when we’ll begin peer reviewing them. You’ve all made some amazing progress and we’re excited to see your semi-final products! Please let me, Paulo, or Sylvia know if you have any… Read more »

Hi all, Just wanted you to be among the first to know: we’re excited to announce that FabLearn 2014 will take place on October 25th and 26th! We’ll talk more about potential opportunities for fellows to get together before/during/after the conference in the next couple of months. We’re also now accepting submissions for workshops, educator… Read more »

Hi everyone! We are approaching the end of the first cycle of guru resource guide projects. Many of you have met with Sylvia to discuss them, and they are coming together! We appreciate what you have pulled together so far, and are learning a lot about how to structure these resources in future cycles. To wrap up this… Read more »

Hi all, This is a summary of what I learned when I spoke to many of you about your Resource Guide, or Guru Projects. You are an amazing group of individuals! The things you are doing in your schools and organizations are fascinating and I totally see why you were chosen for the Fellowship. The… Read more »

Hi Fab Fellows – This week I’m happy to meet with anyone who missed the office hours of the last two weeks, or just chat with anyone – shoot me an email and we’ll make it happen. Same for anyone who would like me to look at their work, just give me a a link… Read more »

I have been making plans for student reflection and group self-assessment in an end-of the year project. For two years, I have ended 8th grade history with a project that brings together two things we have looked at through the year: individuals who make a difference and historical monuments. The students have finished their research… Read more »

Background   When I first started using a problem based curriculum in science I admit that I had no idea what to expect. Moreover, I had only a vague idea of how I was going to assess my students. As an academic teacher, I am required to give my students a letter grade twice a… Read more »

I have just started Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age by Rupert Wegerif, Professor of Education and Director of Research at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, UK. The author analyzes how  the use of the Internet disrupts the traditional logic of print-based education by offering an experience of knowledge as participatory and multiple. Before mass print-based education, culture everywhere… Read more »

I keep returning to the same thought lately, “can real learning ever take place inside the formal classroom, or even the formal idea of school?22