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Yes, Rosie! I love my Zombies, too…
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What if…?
Imagine for a second…we changed the way we thunk about what goes on (or should go on) in our classrooms.
You know…
…did a bit of a swap!
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Not only in what we thunk…but also in how we talk about what we thunk.
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Would the world come to an end, acaba? Would the Zombie hordes that tormented Brad Pitt and his ever-so-sweet movie family over the Summer…move into our cities, suburbs and schools?
I know, I know…the zombies have already taken our Ministries, our School Boards, our “Reform” Agenda – but Brad did “win” out in the end…did he not?
By fighting on the “front line”!
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Many of us have already taken the first step. I mean…we have been asking:
…even though we might not like the term “business”!
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AND…we already kinda recognise that…
LEARNing is sooooooo much bigger…
…and something we (as TEACHers) cannot (however much we may want to) do on behalf of our students.
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Nope!
No Zombie apocalypse!
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I mean…a few simple questions is all that it takes to get us there:
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Mmmm – ouch! But, a nice “ouch”…
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Hey, here’s a thunk…what about if all TEACHers-In-Training (you know, those lovely TEACHers-To-Be) had these questions at the heart of their “curriculum”…lecturers that “felt” these questions in their bones…and “walked their talk”.
I wonder what impact this might have on these TEACHers when they get to “do business” – in their own classrooms?
Pretty much the same in the case of humanities – …what if we had humanities educators that (instead of teaching their students “about” books or what so-and-so “meant” in lines 14-15 on page 69) help their students to LEARN about life, work and themselves…”through” reflecting on books!
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Afterall…
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Hey, just a thunk…
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The alternative, I fear, is waiting for those other Zombies to come up with the next:
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And, this time…Brad is not around to save us!
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