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How To Fake A 21st Century Classroom

Creativity is a 21st-century teaching and learning currency–and the best way to make sure it happens is to give points for it.

Upgrading for me means a clean, fresh start. It’s about assessing what’s out there, removing what’s outdated, and investing in the future.

There are elements of play, leveling up, and a sense of mastery or achievement upon accomplishing each challenge.

Strategies for using context clues in reading including word parts, definition–> explanation, examples, antonyms, and analogies.

Teachers are professionals and their ‘clients’ are children and their function is teaching and their craft is understanding.

Teachers are guides and coaches and content experts. A ‘post-progressive’ teacher would be empowered, not replaced.

Wikipedia is a surprisingly useful tool for even formal educational research. The ‘References’ section on each page can be a gold mine.

Sugata Mitra showed that children could learn complex tasks in the absence of formal training, spurred on by curiosity and peer interest.