THE INSPIRED
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By John Clements
Happy Holidays, everyone! I hope that the holiday break has not only given you time with family and friends but also a chance to reflect on your learning from the previous year and the chance to get rejuvenated for the year ahead!
In today’s post, I’m sharing a passage and a challenge to put you in the "reimagination mindset" as we get ready for 2018. Check out the passage below from Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. Take the challenge by posting your “what’s worth knowing” question in the padlet below.
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David Antonelli
12/28/2017 09:43:50 pm
Seeing that we try to get families to be a part of their child’s education, I would first start out by asking the student and the guardians what are the things that they see as being things they need to first learn at home. What my parents taught me around my house growing up are the first things I have tried to share with my kids over the past 10-14 years. They need to be able to understand the difference between book smart and common sense. (I would hope that they would want us to ask questions about the importance of organization, daily living skills like cleaning, cooking, laundry, sewing, following a schedule, filling out forms, banking, reading labels on bottles/medicines, living on their own, getting a car and taking care of it, safety, grocery shopping,...)
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