Unstoppable
Repeat after me: I am unstoppable. That statement has power. Even just uttering the words makes me feel courageous, ready to take something head-on and tackle […]
For the Scientist Doubting Herself
Picture a scientist. Not a specific scientist, just a generic scientist. What image comes to your mind? What is the scientist wearing? How tall are […]
The Hidden World of Learning: Making Thinking Visible
The ancient cobblestones shifted and clicked underneath Gerenex’s boots as he carefully made his way down the centuries-old staircase. The young wizard breathed deeply of […]
Transparency of Learning
Transparency of Learning By: Hayley Johnson Have you ever been teaching and feel like your students are listening but not understanding, or your students are […]
The Things Hiding Among Us
Have you ever really sat down and took the chance to just think? What about thinking about your thinking? Most people will probably answer no, […]
An Interesting Perspective: The Importance of Windows
Howdy bloggers, I apologize for the gap in my posts, but today marks the sixth installment of An Interesting Perspective. In this post, we will […]
Training of the Mind
This quote stuck with me when I first read it because I relate to it in many ways. As a fourth year college student and […]
Seeing the Fruits of Your Labor
Representations of our learning such as posters and research papers are not the only way that a learner can make their thinking visible to themselves […]
Taking Notes with Invisible Ink
Can you read this? Of course, you can read the text when I type it clearly, but in the above picture if I were to […]
What does thinking look like?
It’s so simple to test students and grade them based on the facts they’ve memorized, but the whole point of education isn’t to memorize facts, […]