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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Winning Rap of Science Genius 2013 — Whole Child Education

Winning Rap of Science Genius 2013 — Whole Child Education:

Jason Flom

Winning Rap of Science Genius 2013



Connecting learners with curricular content so they take ownership of it and make it their own necessitates that design and delivery of learning experiences meets two requirements.
  1. It must be meaningful to learners.
  2. It must make sense to learners.
In a paradigm of top-down education reform that effectively limits teacher autonomy, this is easier said than done. How much flexibility (or encouragement) do teachers have to adapt curricula and enlist students as co-creators of educational experiences? Not much. Nor are they trained in that capacity. The result is scripted content designed for average student across the nation, making it effective for no-one because no learner is average across the board. (For more on this topic, check out Todd Rose's brilliant TEDxSonoma talk on the "Myth of Average.")
A small group of passionate and dedicated educators in New York City, lead by Columbia Teachers College