In this podcast, Alan November interviews Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, chemistry teachers from Woodland Park, CO. The discussion focuses on their models of flipped learning where the traditional model of classwork and homework is reversed, leading students to a deeper understanding about the concepts being taught. Both Jonathan and Aaron will be presenters at [...]
In this podcast, Alan November has a conversation with Brad Ovenell-Carter, School Head of the Think Global School. This traveling school takes a global contingency of students on a journey through various countries as they learn about the world around them as well as dig deeply into a rich curriculum. Alan and Brad discuss the [...]
Lessons Learned in a Global School: A Podcast with Brad Ovenell-Carter [ 28:15 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIn this podcast, Alan interviews Silvia Tolisano, 21st Century Learning Specialist, along with other administrators, teachers and students at Martin J. Gottlieb School. Here, students are being encouraged to take more of a leadership role in their learning as they take part in a variety of jobs inspired by Alan November’s article, Students as Contributors: [...]
This is the second part of Alan’s discussion with Eric Marcos, BLC presenter and middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. In this episode, Eric, his students and Alan focus on the student created tutorials’ impact on how students are learning and how Eric can evaluate problems individual students might be having. Eric also describes [...]
Rahaf Harfoush talks about inherited culture and getting policy-makers to reflect on the way they make decisions.
Highlights from Angela Maiers’ great session on authentic writing on Friday. Angela brought in 12-year old Zoe for her perspective on schooling:
I posed this question on twitter: Writing a blog post/summary of #blc10 Help me. What is was/is your greatest learning moment of the conference? I’ll add your tweet. Go… Here’s what I got: A small sampling of responses but take some time to see if those ideas resonate with you. On a side note, notice the [...]
Would you want to? If you could stay exactly who you are in the physical world, but reinvent your digital identity, would you? As I was sitting is Michael Wesch’s phenomenal keynote yesterday morning, I started thinking some more about my digital identity and jotted down some questions. What would I do if I could go [...]
On this last morning of BLC10, Alan has posed an interesting question, and we would love your feedback. When you arrived at BLC, you arrived with a particular mindset. We are interested in hearing about what views, understandings and/or beliefs of yours have changed after attending this year’s conference.
Yesterday at BLC I presented on how to manage information overload. Together we looked at the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for this all too prevalent problem. Here is a list of 10 things you can do to keep your Online life under control. 1. Have compassion for yourself – We are all works in progress, [...]
November Learning is proud to partner with AASA to launch a focus institute for superintendents and their teams to leverage the investment in technology on student achievement.