The Google test | Tom Rademacher | TEDxBurnsvilleED

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Tom explains that if your students can Google the answer to the questions you ask of them, you are probably asking them the wrong questions. Hear his take on "The Google Test."

Tom Rademacher teaches high school English at the FAIR School Downtown in Minneapolis. His work in the classroom is focused on giving his students opportunities to learn about the world, reasons to really care about it, and the voice and tools to change it. Outside of his classroom, he focuses on teacher advocacy, working as a founding member of Education Minnesota’s NEXTGEN group, a member of the Educators 4 Excellence teacher leadership team, and a member of the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership’s Solutions Not Suspensions Coalition. In whatever free time he finds, he writes (misterrad.tumblr.com) and tweets (@mrtomrad) about education. In May of 2014, he was named Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year.

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