Random+Thoughts

__**11/29 School doesn't end at the schoolhouse door anymore.**__

Today a student told me, in reference to the online work over the Thxgiving break that she didn't do, that she "doesn't really think about school once she walks out the door". I told her that the world has changed and that thinking doesn't work anymore. The world of work has changed. Jobs don't stop at the office door anymore, and school doesn't stop at the schoolhouse door anymore either.

Learning is ongoing and we need to continue our thinking about math once we go on to the rest of our day. To do this is to ask students to think differently about what happens in the school. __In order to think differently about their education, it needs to feel different while they're in the classroom.__ This is one of the areas where mathXLforschool is helpful, because it feels different. Not completely different, but different enough that students can be open to new thinking about how they educate themselves.

The good qualities of being in a classroom need to remain, but there are new pieces that allow us to extend our education into that space outside of the classroom.