Tag: Katie Martin
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The Walking Dead…at a School Near You?
People talk about the idea of a zombie apocalypse and if it could ever really happen, funny thing is it already has! Our children are being turned into veritable zombies everyday that they sit and do uninspired work at school or are expected to fit into a one-size fits all cookie cutter style of education.…
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On Being Timeless
Recently, Anthony Salcito, Vice President of Education at Microsoft, gave an analogy during his talk at the E2 Educator’s Conference in Singapore, he said: “If you took a surgeon from a hunded years ago out if an operating theatre and put him or her in a hospital today they would be completely lost and not…
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Be Revolutionary: Focus on the People
There’s a revolution going on all around us. An innovation revolution. And an innovation revolution is just what we need to support our students and ourselves. If we truly want to do the best for our students we have to innovate. Teaching the way we were taught isn’t going to cut it anymore. We need to…
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Innovative Messages
What messages are you sending? Let’s consider the messages we send when we innovate in the classroom. We show our students that learning is ongoing, a process and something to embrace – always. Innovation enhances everything we do. It makes life interesting. It creates passion. It’s contagious. But most importantly it says we think enough…