Passion-Led Learning Reading, Resources, and Reactions by

Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:11 UTC

Spencer and Juliani provide a practical framework for implementing student-centered learning that fosters agency, ownership, and passion. Includes actionable strategies for higher education instructors to transition from traditional models to more empowering approaches.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:12 UTC

Palmer's reflective work explores the connection between authentic teaching and student engagement. His insights on creating learning communities that honor student voice are particularly relevant to passion-led learning in higher education contexts.

Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:14 UTC

Brookfield addresses how instructors can foster critical thinking through student-directed inquiry. His approach aligns with passion-led learning by emphasizing how students can pursue deep understanding of topics that matter to them.

Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:16 UTC

Weimer's influential work provides concrete strategies for shifting power and responsibility to students. Her approach emphasizes how instructors can facilitate passion-led learning by redesigning course elements to maximize student agency.

Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students｜充满热情的学习者：如何激发并赋能你的学生

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:18 UTC

While primarily focused on K-12, Ripp's work offers valuable insights applicable to higher education. She presents research-backed strategies for creating learning environments where student passion drives academic achievement and personal growth.

Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning Skills｜培养自我调节型学习者：提升学生自我觉察与学习能力的策略

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:19 UTC

Nilson examines how instructors can develop students' ability to direct their own learning - a critical skill for passion-led approaches. Contains practical activities and assessment methods specifically designed for higher education contexts.

Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom｜为什么学生不喜欢上学？——认知科学家解答关于大脑运作及其课堂意义的问题

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:21 UTC

Willingham applies cognitive science principles to explain how deep learning occurs. His insights on curiosity, problem-solving, and memory formation provide valuable background for designing passion-led learning experiences.

Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:23 UTC

Miller explores how digital tools can enhance student engagement and facilitate passion-led learning. Her work addresses how technology can be leveraged to provide greater student choice and more personalized learning pathways.

The Participatory Cultures Handbook

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:25 UTC

This collection examines how participatory culture principles can transform educational environments. The chapters explore how student voice, collaboration, and authentic creation align with passion-led learning approaches.

Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching: A Guide for Faculty

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:51:26 UTC

This practical guide offers frameworks for meaningful student-faculty partnerships that amplify student voice. The authors present various models for collaborative curriculum design and assessment that support passion-led learning.

Making Thinking Visible

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:57:01 UTC

Probing Questions

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 12:57:26 UTC

Students as Teachers

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 13:03:46 UTC

Provocations are not just early childhood

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 13:05:26 UTC

Hexagonal Thinking

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 13:06:40 UTC

Super Courses

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-11 13:37:13 UTC

As you leave today, respond to one of the following prompts.

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-13 09:25:19 UTC

我今天受到了什么的启发？What is your key takeaway?
从我出发，我希望激起怎样的涟漪？What kind of ripple do you hope to create from yourself?
我为孩子创造了怎样的学习可能性？What new learning possibilities have you opened for children?

What connections can you make with your current practice and the foundation of passion-led learning?｜你的实践如何与热情驱动学习相呼应？

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-20 01:24:28 UTC

What new thoughts or wonderings do you have about passion-led learning from what was shared so far?｜从刚才的分享中，你对热情驱动的学习有哪些新的思考或疑问？

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-20 01:25:15 UTC

Avenues Shenzhen

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Avenues World Elements

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-20 01:35:42 UTC

Learning that Transfers, Designing Curriculum for a Changing World｜迁移性学习：为变化中的世界设计课程

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-20 01:38:26 UTC

Learning That Transfers empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness the critical concepts of traditional disciplines while building students’ capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to solve novel and complex modern problems.

FutureWise by David Perkins｜面向未来的学习

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-20 01:39:04 UTC

But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the future? Future Educating Our Children for a Changing World is a toolkit for approaching that question with new insight. There is no one answer to the question of what's worth teaching, but with the tools in this book, you'll be one step closer to constructing a curriculum that prepares students for whatever situations they might face in the future.

In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake American High School｜寻求深度学习：重塑美国高中的探索

ryanbaxter6 — 2025-09-20 01:39:44 UTC

Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship.