Imagine having your students combine images from flickr.com, their own creativity, and a tool like Slide.com to create their own visual poetry? (From the previous link, click on “original view” to enlarge the view and begin the show.) Flickr has an amazing wealth of photos in the Creative Commons area under the keyword “poetry” [...]
Entries from April 4, 2008
Learning because you want to
April 4, 2008 · No Comments · Change, Learning
When I wrote my previous post, I didn’t know I’d soon have a perfect illustration of what learning looks like for younger students who have a natural joy for learning. In The Passionate Learner, Robert L. Fried points out that in preschool or kindergarten learners: “Curiosity is everywhere. Questions abound. Pride and delight in learning [...]
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What end do we have in mind?
April 1, 2008 · 8 Comments · Future students, Learning
I had a conversation today with a student about class rank, and the detrimental effects she’s felt as a result. I won’t go into details here due to privacy for her concerns, but it made me once again wonder what we are doing to children in our high schools in this country. We’ve created [...]
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