Year: 2015

Because these comments were left on Medium (a platform that lets you comment by paragraph rather than whole post), the context for them may be a little hard to follow. However, this is an important article about the gender politics of programming. This “beginner” part is really tough. It is …

Sometimes Differentiation isn’t the right word for what is going on in an innovative classroom: Whenever I do a sessions on “Personalization”, I tend to ask folks what the difference between Personalizing FOR students and Personalizing BY students. I believe that this is the heart of why Genius Hour is …

We don’t all blog and tweet for the same reason, and I think that is okay. I blog and tweet mostly for myself. I do these things to reflect upon my learning and to create a community of those who are interested in learning along with me. While I really …

An wonderful global project in a High School science classroom: This is a wonderful project, and I am so glad that you have outlined just how it has worked within your classroom so that others may follow in your footsteps. However, I take issue with this statement: “But for now, the …

Keep doing great things. Keep telling kids that they matter and that they are smart enough. Keep giving them opportunities to show what they know and can do: Thank you for sharing this story and for showing that there are ways of debunking the narrative of “not smart enough” that many …

Many stories of what is happening in PARCC states: The way in which you have aggregated all of these comments is really quite compelling as a way of framing your argument. It is pretty clear that your testimony resonated with others. The part that I would like to focus on, …