Episode 3

|Introductions| Clay Burell joined David and Jeff all sharing their Chinese New Year experiences from Korea, Taiwan and China. Intro for Clay: Clay has taught language arts in the U.S., Europe, China and now Korea. He works to take "schooliness" out of his students' learning experiences. A big part of his effort is to help his students build personal learning networks (PLN). He is now running an elective PLN focused elective course so look to follow his students' learning via Clay's Beyond-School blog. |Essential Question| Passion for learning, how to nurture and grow it? David: See his blog where he shares about his son's passion for learning and what contributes to it. Jeff: Finding passion in our students Learning needs to have meaning Learning needs to be authentic Learning needs to be deep The SOS Team Discussion: How to give credit for the engaging work that students want to do outside out of class? How to substitute the learning the kids are doing on their own for the prescrib