#dialogic learning

Listen: A Guiding Power in a World Between Worlds. An examination of how we might provide navigational software for students growing into a world in crisis. Overtly optimistic in that it suggests a way to potentially save us all. Listen...

If you’ve followed my blog here for a while, you’ll know I champion speaking and listening as cornerstones of my classroom. And while I was an accomplished student in my HS and College seminar classes, it wasn’t until my introduction to and adoption of the Touchstones Discussion Project in 1996 that I shifted not only how I used speaking and listening in the classroom, but also the entire culture…

I Want to Tell You a Little Secret…

Yesterday, a student taught my class.  From start to finish, this student handled the class (well, aside from the administrative tasks of attendance, etc).  And the secret?  It’s not that a student(s) taught class.  (I’ve done that many times.)  It’s actually the fact that I’ve been waiting for this.

The lesson was based on the Touchstones Discussion ProjectI’ve used for almost 20 years. But…