Crack student ‘engagement’ and you’ve cracked 21st century schooling

July 12, 2012 by 1 Comment

If you can crack the problem of engagement – not just ‘are you paying attention?’, but ‘are you fascinated by this?’ – if you can crack engagement in deep learning then you’ve cracked 21st century schooling.

Mike Berrill via http://gcouros.com/are-you-fascinated. [yes, it’s a George Couros doubleheader today!]

Also check out the incredible resources to help you create ‘engaging schools’ over at Innovation Unit.

 

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One Response to “Crack student ‘engagement’ and you’ve cracked 21st century schooling”

  1. Vincent Huijts Reply July 13, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    In my opinion it’s a fundamental problem of the way we teach.

    “Therefore I think it’s time for education to take notice from cartoons”

    Read some more on my guestblog @

    http://www.tedxamsterdamed.com/

    Cheers!

    Vincent Huijts
    http://seriousgamesnl.blogspot.com

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