#1 blew me away! Imaginative History teachers tap into the imaginative and emotional lives of their students to make the knowledge they are teaching meaningful. Imaginative History teachers frequently and routinely employ cognitive tools in order to maximize student learning. Learn more about Imaginative Education or access Tips For Imaginative Educators from the Tools of Imagination Series on this blog. Here are a […]
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Cognitive tools–theoretical and practical examples
Learn To Live Attentively In A Media Mad World (Part Two)
Just google it. Want to find out something new? What to research something old? Just google it. Everybody “googles” because it is a very quick and very handy means to access information. “Googling” is such a basic and widespread activity these days, that it has entered our vernacular. I am ambivalent when it comes to googling; I appreciate its […]
What is Imaginative Ecological Education? #IEE
Human beings are not refrigerators. Industrial metaphors continue to shape the way we talk and think about education. This is a problem. Why? Because there’s no way approaches to teaching/planning that are inspired by factories and assembly lines can support ecological understanding–that sense of one’s implicatedness in all life and the care and concern to do something […]