by alicjawp | Jun 5, 2022 | Social Justice, TECHO, Uncategorized, Week Without Walls
Yuval Noah Harari and Lisa Feldman Barrett both write about construction: in Sapiens Harari underlines how culture is a human construct, subject to consistent change, while in 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain, Feldman tells us that our brain constructs our reality, and...
by alicjawp | Jan 20, 2021 | Lit Circles, Social Justice, Uncategorized
Watching the news coverage surrounding the death of George Floyd at the end of a very tumultuous school year and then learning more and more about the reality of racism in the USA and the world as the summer opened with Black Lives Matter protests, I felt helpless...
by alicjawp | Sep 29, 2020 | Capstone, Lit Circles, Presentations, Technology, Tinkering, Uncategorized
Full disclosure: before COVID and eLearning, I, despite being an avid user of Google Classroom almost since its inception, still used paper rubrics to give students feedback. I would give comments and suggestions in their Google Docs but I would still circle and...
by alicjawp | Jul 2, 2020 | Compass Tool, Featured, Infographic, PBL, Project Based Learning, Social Justice, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized
* I teach at a private school in Mexico with a predominantly Mexican student population with a few students from the USA and a few minority students, mostly from South Korea and India. My ideas for teaching presented here are for these students in mind. “The...
by alicjawp | Apr 29, 2020 | Collaboration, Featured, Innovation, Mindfulness, Systems Thinking
“How can we prepare ourselves and our children for a world of such unprecedented transformations and radical uncertainties?” – Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century In an inspiring letter to his students, “To Expand the Moral Imagination in the...
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