2015 | Words Into Deeds

Bringing the Classroom into the World

School’s out for summer, it would seem, but not for Eli Corning. Inside Gertrude Shaffer’s Distance Learning class, the 17-year-old junior supplemented his global education with a videoconference with Denis Okema of Global Education Motivators, a non-government...

A WORLD OF DEEDS: South Seneca’s Distance Learning Class Motivates Students

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“My work is about bringing the world into my classroom,” Shaffer said recently, as she sat in her empty room during the last week of school. “It’s appropriate for young adolescents — whose brain is developing faster than at any other time other than infancy — to have...