Pedagogical scenario controller: a new role for the teacher
Harnessing the available communication tools, abilities, and multiple interests of students is seemingly difficult to reconcile with linear or tightly scripted instruction. And it is precisely these roles of "lesson planner, researcher, and communicator" that many teachers define themselves by...
Revaluing and teaching historical figures through mock trials
The mock trial is in essence an exercise in conflict, and therefore promotes pedagogy through debate and, by extension, cognitive conflict. This cognitive conflict arises from the debates and exchanges generated by the group exercise.
History is a toy
Whether they take the form of pixels, period costumes or fantastical tales, these playful uses of history have one thing in common: they shake up our relationship with the past. By inviting us to literally enter into history, to live it and replay it rather than contemplate it from a distance, they open up new ways of transmitting and appropriating it.
Teachers in the school of tomorrow
In the world of education, new ways of doing things, new social norms, new behaviors, new parents...
New and innovative teaching methods
Is pedagogical innovation possible? Many so-called "new" pedagogies are no longer theories, but living, consolidated subjects. Today, the question is no longer why and how. The question is rather when.