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How One Teacherʹs Simple Experiment
Rekindled a Love of Learning
by Micheal • June 20, 2016 • 2 min read • original
For Sam Magar, a teacher at AIC in Perth, Australia, it began as an experiment. Just something new to try out
away from the classroom. But before long it changed everything inside the classroom too – and for the be漀er.
Einstein once said that insanity was repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results. If the means don’t change, then the ends won’t change either.
But in a finely balanced environment such as the school classroom, change can be a scary thing – for
teachers as well as students.
This is certainly the case when it comes to bridging the tech divide in the classroom, where on one side
you have traditionalist teachers, on the other side the tech‑savvy students. Ge漀ing lost somewhere
between the two, was the simple love of learning learning.
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