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This week's #MeaningfulMonday is all about breaking down the myth that some people are born creative and some aren't. David Kelly shares stories from his design career that will touch the heart and inspire.
Make your Monday meaningful y'all!
This week's #MeaningfulMonday calls on us, all of us, to rethink how we "do school". Whether it's bell schedules, disciplines, the role of the teacher or the role of the learner, this provocation provides us with a healthy dose of why do we do things the way we are doing them?
All stakeholders, parents, teachers, students, community members, need to watch this.
Make your Monday meaningful y'all.
This week's #MeaningfulMonday is all about honouring creativity, diversity and originality. It's about showing our students that we value their voice, their passions and their interests. It's about harnessing the unique traits of our learners in our classrooms each and every day.
Together, watch this provocation to help lay the framework for more creative and authentic demonstrations of learning and to honour the talents of your students.
Make your Monday meaningful y'all.
And thank you to good friend and colleague Jessie Moore for pushing this my way.
As an inquiry teacher I love shedding light on the power of questions as the start point of learning. Whether the question is simple to answer or is personalized, possesses room for interpretation, and provides opportunity for rich and meaningful researching, questions stir wonder, curiosity and interest.
Case in point this week's #MeaningfulMonday. A recap of some Google searches from the year and yes, they will strike a chord.
Shout out to edufriend Natasha Rachell for pushing it my way. You rock!
Make your Monday meaningful y'all.
For this instalment of #MeaningfulMonday check out Ms. Nunez making the difference in the lives of her learners and how tech, although it doesn’t drive the learning experience, powerfully impacts it.
Make your Monday meaningful y’all.
This week’s #MeaningfulMonday is a lot of fun! Huge thanks to friend Alec Couros for always sharing interesting content. Y’all know how much I LOVE Rube Goldberg Machines (find out more about these fun creations here) and the below two are absolute gems.
This past weekend I was in Georgia working with some amazing educators and I had an inspiring chat with a technology teacher as we brainstormed lessons with her grade two kiddos in mind. These two videos surfaced from our discussion.
Try this on for size no matter what grade or subject you teach: challenge your students to create a Rube Goldberg Machine of their own. You can make this activity fun by limiting the time they have to create their machine, determining how many steps must be in their project, and even requiring them to plan and blueprint their machine before they experiment.
This activity really drives home the importance of process rather than merely the product of learning. As students experiment they must also make observations, reflect, revise and try again and again until they achieve succeed. Powerful stuff!
Make your Monday Meaningful y’all!
Do you have a 3D printer in your school?
Have you used it?
Have your students?
What did they make?
Have a watch of this video by the good folks at Not Impossible and see how Mike Ebeling’s vision to help Sudanese amputees due to injuries sustained in their bloody and damaging history of conflict.
Make your Monday meaningful y’all!
“People can set their mind to magical, seemingly impossible ideas and then through science and technology bring them to reality.”
Not a bad hook, eh?
Share this with your class today. Discuss the impossible. If you could do one thing tomorrow without fear of failure or worry of risk, what would it be?
Cue Moonshot Thinking. Check it out.
Make you Monday meaningful y’all.
“Probably the most important thing for kids growing up today is a love of embracing change.”
Curiosity should be at the forefront of what we do, each and every day. On this #MeaningfulMonday I call on you to spark some curiosity in your learners.
Make your Monday meaningful y’all.
How can you use technology to solve a real-world problem?
Ask your students this simple yet transformative question. Have them identify problems, propose plans, and design solutions.
Even if you don’t take the brainstorm or design to iteration, asking students to design solutions to challenges they see in their community, locally or globally, will pay huge dividends. Whether it’s fostering creativity, nurturing empathy, sharpening 21st century skills or honing an innovative approach to attacking issues, this simple prompt can take you and your learners to wondrous places.
Then show them this provocation.
Make your Monday meaningful y’all.
