by Kyle Wagner | Feb 10, 2020 | Projects
School (s): The Harbour School Hong Kong Project Summary: Students in grade 5 were studying inventions of 15th Century, which included the Gutenberg Printing Press. Each pair of students developed a page of a class-book about other inventions of the time and then used...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 29, 2020 | Projects
Story Title School (s): YW and YC Schools Across Asia Project Summary: Digital Stories are easy and fun videos put together on the computer that combine pictures/ illustrations, audio and text in a story that communicates a valuable lesson. Here is a sample video one...
by Kyle Wagner | Jan 26, 2020 | Blog
The alarm reverberated across the entire school. Instinctively, every student dropped to the ground, gripping the legs of their table tightly in preparation for an ensuing earthquake. The earthquake never came. Instead, a voice rang over the loud speaker: “Remain...
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog
There I was, Friday morning, thirty minutes before my first exhibition of student learning. Materials were spread haphazardly across the room with several students fighting over the lone glue gun to piece together the remaining parts of their model civilizations. I...
by Kyle Wagner | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog
One of the most common questions I get from schools I work with is, ‘How do I motivate the unmotivated student?” And while my knee- jerk reaction would be to insist there is no such thing as an ‘unmotivated student;’ I’ve been an educator...