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84: How Jurassic Park Made Hackers Heroic
Asked by a book translator if people would consider the word "Hacking" negative, Hack Learning creator and your host Mark Barnes explained that "hackers" can actually be heroic. Mark shares the story of how a...
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83: How Moving Is Giving Our Kids a Real-World Learning Experience
Worksheets and workbooks do not provide real-world learning opportunities. The best real-world teaching and learning comes from, where else, the real world. Mark Barnes explains how buying and selling a house gives...
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82: How to Improve Reading with the 80/20 Analysis
Hacking Literacy author Gerard Dawson wonders, Why are required texts often so inaccessible? These texts are often not modern. They may take place in a different historical, geographical or cultural setting than the...
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81: How to be the Best Teacher Every Day
In Episode 81 of the Hack Learning Podcast, Mark Barnes shares a heartfelt story from author James Sturtevant about being the best teacher you can be, taken from the conclusion of the new book, Hack Learning...
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80: Hacking Powerful People: Inspiration from Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep, the three-time Oscar-winning actress, condemned the actions of a man she chose not to name and who shall remain nameless here on the Hack Learning Podcast.During her acceptance of the Cecil B. DeMille...
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79: Nail Your New Year's Resolution: Learn how to write a book
Connie Hamilton wrote a book. What's the big deal? Like most would-be writers, Connie wondered if she could do it. In Episode 79 of the Hack Learning Podcast, educator/presenter and popular Twitter influencer Connie...
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78: How to Eliminate Both Homework and Grades with Starr Sackstein
Starr Sackstein believes in change, and sometimes change in education means cutting out archaic practices like traditional homework and grades.Author of Hacking Assessment and Hacking Homework, Starr explains how to...
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77: How to Overcome PBL Paralysis with authors Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy
PBL paralysis. That's a scary phrase that makes many teachers run as far as possible away from project-based learning.Hacking Project Based Learning authors and PBL and inquiry learning experts Ross Cooper and Erin...
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76: It's your turn. What do you want?
It's your turn. Let's hack your professional growth. You tell us what you need, and we'll give it to you. Visit http://hacklearning.org/survey. Answer three questions (it takes about 30 seconds). Ask and you shall...
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75: How to Tell Kids Their Teacher Has Cancer with Justin Birckbichler
Justin Birckbichler is 25 years old. He teaches fourth graders in Virginia, and he recently learned that he has cancer.What is he doing about this horrendous news? He's not screaming, "Why me?" and "Life's not fair!"...
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74: Hacking Passion Projects for Educators
It's time to bring a little passion into school and into professional growth, according to school leaders and Hack Learning authors Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis. Based on the strategies in Hacking Leadership, Mark...
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73: Hacking Whole Child Education and Student Advocacy with Valerie Lewis
Whole child education is often missing from our classrooms. Schools and teachers work in isolation, sometimes overlooking the impact other stakeholders can have on improving learning environments and...
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