Lately, I have been looking for an easy way for students to create infographics. The following tool is so easy to use and creates great looking infographic posters.
Before I talk about the ‘how’ let’s talk about the ‘why’ Continue Reading…
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There are two main ways that poverty and education seem to interact.
The first way that poverty and education interacts is in the belief that poverty is a major inhibitor to a good education. In my previous post I outlined three reasons why I don’t think that this is always the case.
The second way that poverty and education interact is in the belief that the education system is the best tool we have as a society to solve the issues relating to poverty.
In a New York Times Article written in September this year the author makes the following statement.
“Are we expecting too much of our teachers? Schools are clearly a critical piece — no, the critical piece — in any anti-poverty strategy”
Every teacher would agree, the responsibility of educating the next generation is no small task, and for the majority of teachers one that is taken with a due sense of diligence.
But do we really have to wear the responsibility of fixing all of society’s problems? As teachers do we need to solve the problem between poverty and education?
In the previous post I spoke of my reaction to the phrase, “It’s not my fault.”
One of the contexts that I regularly hear the comment “it’s not my fault” is in the area of poverty. Now before we get too far into this topic please understand three things:
1. I am trying to reflect and write on an incredibly complex topic in around six hundred words – this is not designed to be an exhaustive commentary
2. I am speaking generally – every situation is unique and I am trying to address what I believe are some universal principles that deal with poverty as it intersects education and the excuse it’s not my fault.
3. My whole purpose is to help you reflect and respond. I am not trying to solve the problem, rather just have a discussion about it. Feel free to add to the discussion in the comments section below. I posted a link to the previous post on LinkedIn which has sparked quite a discussion! Feel free to comment wherever you feel most comfortable.
A lot of people talk about poverty being a major inhibitor in education. Too often I hear it’s not my fault and then the person will continue to talk about the role that poverty has played in their results. Whilst this certainly is the experience of many schools in low socio-economic communities, I’m not so sure that it has to be the reality.
Here’s why:
There is a lot of talk about the future of education and what the classroom of the future might look like.
Here are two different ideas of what the classroom of the future might look like.
The first classroom of the future is in Sweden
I came across the following info-graphic from the fast company website this morning which made me think about the future of emerging technology and it’s effect on our students.
You will see that the picture is broken up into different fields such as artificial intelligence, biotech, minerals, space etc.
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Here are some interesting predictions about what role technology will play in our future. When you look at this list, think through the job roles this will create for our students and how the skills needed by our students will change from what is needed in 2012.
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