In Community Voices, we listen to the voices and opinions of students, educators, practitioners, and others from diverse communities all around the world.
In an ad-hoc library at a refugee camp recently, I counted 36 copies of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the English-language adult psychology section. There was a psych class… Read More
We continuously learn from every single thing that is going on around us. While walking on the street, we learn from the different ways strangers walk. We learn from the… Read More
Here is some of my planning for the new school year. Many of these things are old and familiar but I will add something new and hopefully something deeper. I… Read More
David is the Founder and Director of the Teaching Empathy Institute, which provides a holistic approach to quality education that takes into account the social, emotional, and leadership skills for… Read More
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills introduced a new set of necessary skills that students today need in order to be successful learners and productive members of future society. These… Read More
BACKGROUND Our school is part of NPDL program (New Pedagogies for Deep Learning). There are six core skills (collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, citizenship and character). We will have one… Read More
Piia Martikainen: My motivation for using games and gamification in the classroom is to make learning engaging to those who might not otherwise be interested in learning. Today’s students are… Read More
An Empty Field (Harappa) and An Amusement Park | Contradictions in planning a space for play There is a famous essay known among contemporary architects in Japan written by an… Read More
Teaching children to be creative is easily done through play. In fact, it is impossible not to be creative once you enter a state of play [1]. Children play intuitively… Read More
All students from Class 1 to Junior Secondary School (JSS) 3 (9th grade) had lined up in arrow-straight rows by grade in my new school’s large courtyard: boys on the… Read More
