The debate between inquiry, problem, and project-based learning is one of education’s most persistent false choices, and it may be costing your students the best learning experiences of their school lives. Picture this. You are standing at the front of your classroom and are holding a brilliant lesson plan. YouContinue Reading
Picture a classroom. A student sits an exam, scores 58 per cent, and moves on. Six months later, in the next unit, she is lost. Not because she is incapable, but because the foundation was never solid. Nobody asked whether she had actually learned the material. The calendar simply movedContinue Reading
The language gap keeping teachers out of EdTech, and the vocabulary shift that closes it. She had been in classrooms for eleven years. Eleven years of designing experiences that held the attention of thirty teenagers who would genuinely rather be anywhere else. Eleven years of reading a room in realContinue Reading
Picture a classroom or a Zoom grid, which is where so many of our classrooms now live. You have just asked your students to analyse the ethical implications of a policy decision. Half the room goes quiet. Two students type something into their phones. One of them reads an answerContinue Reading
