Wired Learning

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

“Loftus’ tale serves to illustrate how regrettably wide the gulf can be between policy ideals and classroom realities.  The policies Loftus has worked to support–standards, improved teacher quality, enhanced learning time for strugglers, et al. – are laudable, but risk melting into insignificance in the face of teachers overwhelmed with a critical mass of disruptive children in her room.”

(via Core Knowledge)

5 great slides about technology, learning, and change

Great quote: “If your students are sharing their work with the world, they want it to be good. If they’re just sharing it with you, they want it to be good enough.” -Rushton Hurley

(via Dangerously Irrelevant)

Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible

“School usually gives students one chance to get something right; failing grades work against practice, mastery, and creativity. To keep kids motivated, learning needs to be irresistible…”

(via @mindshiftkqed)

Students Remember More When They Tell Stories

Our students come to us with a wealth of experiences and stories, and we all too often neglect making use of this gift in our classrooms.

Great, short post by Larry Ferlazzo. Learning for all of us is about so much more than the isolated facts we absorb from reading a textbook or listening to a speaker or lecturer. It’s about making connections between the experiences we have, the people we know and the stories we are told.