In R.E.A.L. Time:A Discussion about Discussion
In R.E.A.L.® Time is a place for conversation about the art, science, and impact of student-led discussion. If that mission feels meta, it’s also born of what we see as a concrete need: an exchange focused explicitly on discussion and stocked with a blend of expertise, research, human interest stories, interdisciplinary connections, and fun!
Edited by Katherine Burd
Office Hours with Claire Goldsmith
A conversation with Claire Goldsmith, Executive Director of Malone Schools Online Network and online learning optimist.
Self Paced Learning and Student-Led Discussion, Together?
Beyond the Syllabus posts offer a round-up of resources that are “practice-adjacent,” as Katherine often says. We offer recs for podcasts, fiction and non, and
Metaphors for (and against) education
We often use metaphors to describe what we do in the classroom. Do those metaphors help us, or do they hurt us?
Ethical Sharing, Ethical Optimism, Ethical Coursework
“Optimism is an explanatory process… it’s the narrative you tell that allows you to move forward.”
Protagonists: Teddy Romeyn
“For me, especially as a young teacher who’s still trying to figure it out, I’ll have students who will try to take the conversation in a completely different direction than what I had planned. Then I start to get worried, and I feel I have to reel the entire class back in. My mentor, though, challenged me to let it happen and then take advantage of the tangent. I’m trying to learn to do that, instead of letting it bother me.”
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