Bodies in Motion: Video Shouts Out to Open Education

Bodies in Motion: Video Shouts Out to Open Education

“Open Ed” is a thirty-second video, that stitches together fragments of physical abandon captured at ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest 2012. Since 2009, hundreds of educators, students, entrepreneurs, researchers, philanthropists, and education technologists have attended the...
Unburden Your Emotional Backpack

Unburden Your Emotional Backpack

Unpacking emotions to nurture student success   As my colleague Shenandoah Weiss outlined in her last post, Lessons for Learning, managing fear, cultivating trust, and encouraging creativity are all essential building blocks for productive, holistic learning. I...
Hey, Kids, Meet Open Education

Hey, Kids, Meet Open Education

Do open educational resources (OER) matter to young people?While making a short video recently, entitled "Game Changer: Open Education in Changing the Rules", I posed questions related to Open Educational Resources, or OER, to some Half Moon Bay 6th and 7th...

Career-Aligned Teaching and Learning

How can a relationship with industry impact what’s taught in the classroom? How can students emerge from community college prepared for the workforce? How can students jumpstart a career path when still in high school?   In a recent visit to a Bridge to Biotech...