Dear colleague, Today, let’s look at a Valued Within exercise that we can do via one of my favorite instructional activities: Pop-Up Debates. As you’ll recall, Valued Within exercises are any activity that has students figuring out why the work of learning is valuable to them. Unlike Mini-Sermons, in which creating and communicating Value messages […]
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To Be Versus to Seem
Dear colleague, A friend sent me this article on AI recently, titled “Subcontracting Our Minds.” In case the title doesn’t make it obvious, the author is not an AI optimist. Though I found the author’s arguments compelling, what I loved most was his surfacing of an old Rousseau argument that it is necessary “to be […]
The Argument Game Works Well With Children (Valued Within Exercise)
Dear colleague, At a workshop I was leading in Texas a few months ago, a colleague asked me in the lunch line if I ever use the Five Key Beliefs methodology from The Will to Learn with my own children at home. The answer is yes, I do approach parenting with this lens, quite often. […]
Mathy (or Sciency or Historyish) Moments (Valued Within Exercise)
Dear colleague, For today’s Valued Within example, let’s look at an idea that’s not mine at all. This one comes from Adam Craig in Massachusetts. Each weekend, Adam’s students have a simple homework assignment: find a mathy moment in real life. On Monday, Adam asks his students to report out what they found. Within a […]
Why Conversations (Valued Within Exercise)
Dear colleague, As I’ve been saying, the Value Puzzle can be solved from two angles: teacher-generated Mini-Sermons and student-generated Valued Within exercises. The Utility-Value “T-Chart” Intervention that we looked at last time is a prime example of a “Valued Within” exercise. Today we’ll look at another. Some years ago, I was engaged in a PD […]