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A Wonderful Case Study - High School As It Ought To Be
Here's a great example of passion and projects overcoming inertia...
Excerpt from: http://theenergyproject.com/blog/2009/12/high-school-way-it-ought-be
" HIGH SCHOOL THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE
By Tony Schwartz, CEO, The Energy Project on Dec 01, 2009How much more focused and engaged would high school students be if they were given an opportunity to pursue their passions – topics that truly sparked their interest and excitement?
A year ago, we helped launch an experiment with 9th graders at the Riverdale Country School, a small independent school in the Bronx. A year earlier, a new head of school had been hired and he brought to his role a series of ideas about education that ought to be commonplace but are all too rare. Among them:
Google Wave - Implications for Learning
The next expression of disruptive innovation... freely available from Google and aptly named. It's early in the develoment cycle, but what a fantastic tool for learning. Source - eSchool News
