The Fresh Classroom by @PaulKelba

Figure  A & B .  Re-Imagining Dewey fro the 21st Century , by  John Seely Brown ,  Year ,  Retrieved from   http://www.johnseelybrown.com/ A few excerpts from the latest grant proposal: Tell us about your school and the role technology currently plays in the classroom and learning experiences of the students. (max 500 words) At Louis Riel School, we are a public school within the Calgary Board of Education with a theme ‘the science of learning’. As our principal constantly reminds us: “we are not a bunch of students in lab coats, with beakers, following instructions” such as experiments where you add this chemical, measure this arc. We have embraced the vision of experimentation in the ‘ makerspace movement’, one that is inquiry-based, learner-driven, it is cross-disciplinary and as such undisciplined in an engaged and powerful way. We seek methods for students to play and build and hack and make. Of course we do. We're human. The Ma...

"Awakening people to the marvels and mysteries of daily life they are missing-increasing their perception by holding on to the childlike qualities of bubbling effervescent joy at being alive;  their marvelous ability to totally immerse themselves in the moment, to lose track of time and space and just merge with the flow of life ; their insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder about everything around them".  Steve Van Matre How do we truly deepen students’s relationship with their community and their local natural world?  We are in week 5 walking the community twice a week as a class (many curricular 'field studies' outcomes achieved; however, the focal outcome is always positive experiences outside of the classroom). Next week we pose specific questions, in hopes dynamic relations are formed using mindful questioning with a sustainable lens: How is everything interconnected? Should you care about others and/or ...