“I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the delivery model.
“I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the delivery model. Here’s why.
This is my 17th year in education. As a result, I’ve taken many courses and attended many more trainings, workshops and conferences. Most are constructed to mirror the traditional classroom. Their objective is to deliver content to people. Even the workshops designed to help teachers transform or reinvent education are delivered in the traditional way.
Big Ideas Fest is about people learning. It opens people up and forces them out of their comfort zone. It directs their attention to the way they think and feel when they are confronted with challenges and new information. It does so within a diverse collection of amazing participants who continually model new ways to approach old challenges. As a result, the skills people strengthen at Big Ideas Fest are content agnostic; which results in an increased ability to be better at everything they do.
I hope all educators get the opportunity to attend Big Ideas Fest. More importantly, I hope all ed workshops evolve to resemble the Big Ideas Fest model. That itself is a Big Idea.”