Tag: Education

  • Apps and Extensions Update

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    It’s an interesting time to be interested in education and technology. We have programs going all in on new tech integration, like the TimeBack and Alpha School folks. We have screen-free microschools, homeschool groups, and forest schools organizing to get access to accreditation and state funding as their waitlists grow. And we have programs like…

  • Template for Student Notes

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    I’ve written a lot about documenting as a facilitator in self-directed learning spaces. Every update of the ALC Network website or Starter Kit, I rework the section on documentation based on what I see day-to-day. There are always more questions for facilitators to consider: How much documentation should be from you versus from the young…

  • Summer 2024 ALC Gathering Reflections, Part 2

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    Reflections are in from some of the 35 folks who gathered at ALC-NYC from July 11th through July 19th for our summer programming! We used the structure of 3 open space practice days, 1 rest day, and then 5 days with kids from the school community running a Bonus School experience. Folks were, as in…

  • E-Book: audio read-through

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    When working with students or friends to polish something they’ve written, one of my favorite exercises is reading the piece aloud to them. It helps them hear where they lose the thread of their thoughts, in a way that silently re-reading the piece over and over to themselves might not make obvious. I like that…

  • Agile E-Book: Update 1 (of 3)

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    Trying to run an independent school on sliding scale tuition through an experience of being the US epicenter of a pandemic was…really something. More trying than the initial transition were the few years that followed, where challenges and changes kept coming long after we had worn down our reserves of funding and energy. More to…