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Acknowledging Change in Schools

The Principal of Change

gcouros The move from Socratic lectures to collaborative learning btwn teachers and students. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC May 26, 2014 The joy of learning. @gcouros Teaching metacognition over content testing ways to better engage Ss in authentic practice of skills.

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How Listening and Sharing Help Shape Collaborative Learning Experiences

MindShift

Learning more together than alone. Listening and sharing are the cornerstones of collaborative learning. We can learn more working together than working alone. Cohen & Lotan, 2014, p. Effective collaborative learning yields gains in motivation and conceptual understanding.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend.

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