The K12 Conference is running and triggering lots of new ideas, offering information, promoting collaboration and , above all, setting up reflection.
English Studio is moving forward.
"I like to think of the idea of classrooms as studios. When you think of classrooms most people get the idea of long straight rows filled with kids. A studio is really different. A studio has a lot of different things going on. Not everybody is doing the same thing.It's probably a little bit noisier than your idea of what a classroom is.
Just by adjusting your idea of classrooms you can open up a lot of possibilities.
Studios are vibrant spaces, with a lot of energy, with somebody who's a master who's in charge of that space and they give us a different idea of classrooms.
So I think the first thing we need to change as we go on this journey is our attitude towards what classrooms can be like. "
Clarence Fisher
K12 Online Conference 2007
Videoclip inspired by previous post on this blog
Link to Clarence Fisher Presentation
The wall posters shown on the videoclip are taken from The Teacher's Magazine (Ediba)
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5 comments:
This is awesome! Beautiful! Wonderful! You are far ahead of me if you have been thinking about studios for that long. I've only been looking in that directions for 1.5 years! Thanks you for starting my day in such a great way!
Alicia,
Maybe this will get some of my students thinking!
Can you share any videos of your classroom "in action"?
diane
Simply brilliant. A must see video.
Indeed Clarence's message makes a profound echo in those of us teaching and blogging far away from the geographical epicentres of change. But this is what Web 2.0 has definitely transformed.
May I remind your readers this English Studio has been open to the world since July 2004? Lots to learn from you, Alicia.
Regards from Buenos Aires to Chaco province!
Wow- I feel overwhelmed really ....
Clarence , great to read a message from you here.
Diane, I do have some videos of my classes in action but I try to avoid publish them onto the web because basically the groups are students under 18, but I have no probs sending some short extracts to your private email for you to download and watch. Just give me some time to do that.
Claudia- Thanks for your supporting words. You are a great blogger and contributor in this network of teachers doing marvellous things with web 2.0 tools-
To all of you, thanks for contact and let's continue learning together.
Alicia: great idea. good food for thought.
Our headmasters and supervisors should see it.
Congrats.!!!!
A huge hug
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