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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Thriving on the Edge of Chaos: An Introduction to the GliderCell Theory of Education

In this video, Lee Chazen tells the story of how he turned a bad set of circumstances into a new theory for education. All classes and content can be adapted to fit your needs. For more information, go to: https://glidercell.com/.

You can contact GliderCell directly by writing to: info@glidercell.com -------- Contents of This Video ----------- 00:00 - Intro 00:43 - Purpose of the video 01:04 - My Teaching Story and How the Global Challenge Project Started 03:34 - Ready to quit teaching, but I had one idea left to try 05:24 - The moment of truth: pitching the idea to students 08:15 - The GliderCell Theory of Education 09:55 - The Story of GliderCell 11:49 - Three New Courses 12:12 - The User Generated Classroom 13:18 - The World According to Disc Golf 15:55 - HikeStorming 17:31 - Podcast and Conclusion For information about Global Challenge, HikeStorming and The World According to Disc Golf, see the following: http://theglobalchallengeproject.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/hikestorming https://soundcloud.com/glidercell/the-world-according-to-disc-golf/s-ggNKmiHKj3N Video editing by Ivan Juric https://octopod.productions/ Special thanks to the following for ideas, inspiration and feedback: Nordic Bildung @ https://nordicbildung.org/ Metamodernity by Lene Rachel Andersen https://nordicbildung.org/books/metamodernity/ The Sacramento Politics and Philosophy Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Sacramento-Politics-and-Philosophy-Group/ More ideas @ http://rightbrainworld.blogspot.com/

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Lee Chazen

Lee Chazen is an educational content developer and writer who does consulting work under the name GliderCell. Chazen studied political science at Colorado State University, also receiving a minor in history and concentration in Russian and East Central European Studies. In the months following Gary Hart's presidential campaign, Chazen became a campaign manager for a California state assembly race where he also helped to coordinate a trade mission of Silicon Valley executives to the former Soviet Union (initiated by state assembly candidate Wendell Williams).

Chazen moved on to a career teaching high school world history, U.S. government and speech and debate. Convinced that teaching in a traditional "top down" method wasn't working for students, Chazen worked with students to create their own learning experience through the use of a game called Global Challenge. The Global Challenge Project continued for seven years and formed the basis for a research paper called Thriving on the Edge of Chaos. In this paper, Chazen argued for more games and projects in the classroom, where both teachers and students feel empowered.

Chazen has been a French horn player since the age of 7, playing with various symphony orchestras, wind ensembles and brass quintets. Hobbies include running, hiking and disc golf.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Thriving on the Edge of Chaos: An Introduction to the GliderCell Theory of Education

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