Flashlab: How Might We Inspire? Slide 2
Discovery Phase: Connecting New Ideas to Past Experience
There was a lot of new information to process this week from the podcast and links. I thought that Antoinette Carroll had several thought provoking statements that caused me to think about my teaching and learning and start to see how I could reevaluate and change things. One thing that I thought was really important that she said was that she does not go into communities that she has no knowledge of and that she would consider that a colonization. She mentioned that she has had offers to move her lab to other cities, but has refused. This got me thinking about the education system in general. There are overall general things that most schools follow- like the CCSS, certain standardized tests, etc. One of the biggest effects on our school is the community. We live in a very different community than most, and a lot of our themes focus around the area that we live in. If someone from New York City were to come in, they would have a completely different viewpoint of our town. I think with...
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