When I saw this poster via a link on Twitter, I laughed and then knew I had to write about it. Change is such a frustrating process sometimes because it is so very gradual. We can’t always perceive it when it is happening because sometimes it seems so glacial. Those of us who are impatient [...]
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“Bird by bird”
February 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Change
Sometimes as a librarian (or technology teacher) it’s easy to get discouraged. Despite how much outreach you do or how good you are, you wonder if teachers really need you or realize that they can call on your support and services? They are so used to working independently and doing things themselves. How do you [...]
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Thanks to…
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Web 2.0
Seen on my 4th grade nephew’s Science Fair trifold acknowledgments– “I would like to acknowledge Wikipedia. . . and my mom and dad…”
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Solar, wind, or electric: Harnessing the energy
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Collaboration, Web 2.0
This morning and yesterday morning both I had the honor of attending the Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar and the Educon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia, both remotely. What was funny was that I felt such a sense of community in the chat rooms talking to students and to other wired educators, sometimes more of a [...]
Serendipity
July 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Change, Leadership
One of my favorite things about learning is the serendipity of it all. We know we need to learn something or grow in some way, and voila, as we are out in the world, and read blogs, and read books, we stumble over these things serendipitously. That’s one of the things I love about bookstores [...]
Students in a new universe?
June 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments · Change, Future students
As we grapple with what a student-centered classroom actually looks like in practice, it clearly involves a real shift in our thinking. Robert Fried points out in The Passionate Learner that “the difference is roughly comparable to that between the Ptolemaic and Copernican views of the solar system.” But as he points out, most of [...]
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Creating “space” for thought
May 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Change, Learning
Our campus has a Vision committee which I’ve mentioned before, made up of parents, students, administrators and teachers. Yesterday at our meeting, we were discussing the books Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner and Horace’s Compromise by Theodore Sizer, and in discussing the two books together some interesting alchemy came up. One of [...]
Curriculum and relationship
May 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Change, Learning, Teacher Learner
A group at our campus is starting a professional learning community. I’m cross posting the post below from the blog we have started, which we aren’t quite ready to share “prime time” but are using for our organizing thoughts, because I thought it would have interest outside of our campus. ———— In our meeting this week, [...]
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Sometimes a seed. . .
April 19th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Change, Collaboration, Web 2.0
Sometimes it just takes the seed of an idea to inspire others. Last night I was checking in on Twitter, feeling a little discouraged, and fellow librarian Jenny Luca just happened to tweet that her students’ live Project Global Cooling concert was just starting their broadcast from Australia. This was a concert they organized for [...]
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Empowering ourselves to empower our students
May 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Change
In a passionate post about school change, Chris Lehmann pondered a speech he gave in Oregon yesterday: “I want to tell them that we have to question every single system we have in our schools. I want to tell them that everything should be on the table. All of it.” A number of us watched [...]
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