We are just as proud as can be here at Generation YES! Edutopia has chosen it’s annual Daring Dozen, twelve people “reshaping the future of education” - and Dennis Harper is on the 2008 list.
From Edutopia - Even as the most optimistic activists in education begin to feel alone and unheard in the wilderness, we find evidence that the ranks of reformers are growing and their pleas for technology integration, project learning, integrated curriculum, collaborative learning, new methods of assessment are having more impact.
The GenYES vision, Harper says, is one of collaboration between students and teachers. The educators, he emphasizes, provide the content and the pedagogy, while the kids are deeply involved in helping instructors employ the classroom technology as a learning tool. When this approach fails, he says, it’s “because we expect teachers to do everything. It always gets me that you have to argue the case that kids should be doing things in schools.”
Congratulations to all the amazing educators of the Daring Dozen and the Global Six 2008!
Daring Dozen 2008
- Nidya Baez
- Charles Best
- Douglas Christensen
- Sakhalin Finnie
- Edwin Gragert
- Maxine Greene
- Dennis Harper
- Van Jones
- Barbara Morgan
- Pablo Munoz
- Michelle Rhee
- Roger Weissberg
Global Six 2008
What a well-deserved award. Dennis has moved way beyond just trying to engage kids…he seeks to empower them. It’s the real educational change that we need.
Congratulations!
and thanks….
pete