Category: Students

  • I want my students to be rule-breakers

    I want my students to be rule-breakers

    It could be the title of a song. But it is not. It is a fact. That’s what I want. I have wanted it always without naming it, and since yesterday, after watching this video where a sophomore student at Georgia Tech USA welcomes freshmen, I can name it: I want my students to be […]

  • Imagine a class full of teenagers

    Imagine a class full of teenagers

    Imagine a class of teenagers … This is how Daniel Pennac’sbook begins. He describes so well a class full of teenagers that you cannot avoid smiling because despite the years “things remain the same”. Because this is what adolescence is. Any educator -teacher, parent- whose turn it is to deal with this beautiful period of […]

  • On-line or Off-line Education?

    On-line or Off-line Education?

    A few weeks ago I was told, with a lot of detail, by the Head of a very good school, the reasons why computers were not allowed in the classroom and the reasons why they don’t even teach the students how to use the computer. I understood the second part perfectly:  students are tech savvy; […]