I recently spoke with a student teacher, who took an internship in Bahrain, an island nation in the Middle East. She was obviously happy with her new adventure, teaching elementary students on a U.S. base in a foreign country. Obviously, the newness of the situation, the cultural experiences, and new faces played a role.
But I believe one of the reasons she was fulfilled in the classroom was that school administrators gave her freedom to be creative, to try new things. She raved...
I don’t plan like most teachers. I always hated having a comprehensive, detailed script before I taught a lesson.
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“The most important thing for India is to develop a well crafted universal basic income plan. This will curb interstate migration, improve access to healthcare, curb population growth, and improve the lives of the backbone of the country, the farmers, who now demonstrate every year for loan waivers after they cannot...
“The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals show us the big problems, so big that they need to become the world’s agenda for education.” – Martin Dougiamas
Martin Dougiamas is the Founder and CEO of Moodle, an open source learning platform. The company was founded in 2002, and since then has grown to have over 100...
“We already have over 60 million games on the Kahoot! platform, most of which are user generated, and we want to encourage content makers to create more content in different formats — which is similar to Netflix’s model.” – Sean D’Arcy
Kahoot’s journey began in 2012, when founders Morten Versvik, Johan Brand, and Jamie Brooker...
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