How often do students not want an assignment to end? In the blogosphere, we often talk about the transformative power of assignments that ignite student passions and connect them to a global audience, and the importance a tool like blogging can play in that. In this case, Christian Long’s Alice Project wasn’t just about blogging [...]
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And the children shall lead them?
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Future students, Learning, Web 2.0
Inspiring students to find their muse
February 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Learning, Web 2.0
Ever since I heard Konrad Glogowski speak at Educon 2.0 last year about blogging and the teacher’s role, I’ve found that a fascinating subject. How do we encourage and support our students into following their own muse in their own blog? And I wonder how do we encourage them to do this when they ask research questions [...]
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The changing nature of reading
July 26th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Learning, Web 2.0
Tim Lauer twittered a fascinating NYTimes article, “Literacy Debate: Online R U Really Reading?” about the changing nature of reading that our students are doing. As students do more and more of their reading online, as the article posits, (based on various research studies), how are we adapting our instruction/reading programs/”novel” assignments to account for [...]
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Creating an ensemble
June 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Learning, Professional Learning Community
One of the things that I can tell is going to be interesting about our professional learning community we have formed at my campus is the diversity of teachers involved. We have members from departments all over campus, from English to science to special education to band. And it’s fascinating hearing their perspectives on teaching [...]
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Using versus having
June 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Learning, Teacher Learner
“They say knowledge is power. We say the use of knowledge is power.” Elliot Washor in The Big Picture by Dennis Littkey As a group of us have been meeting at our campus to form a professional learning community, we’ve been talking quite a bit about the notion of students as a pail having information [...]
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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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Of communication, design, writing and many other things
April 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Cross Curricular Connections, Learning
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator’s skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writing, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. – William Bernbach A lengthy debate has been going on at Clay Burell’s blog regarding the [...]
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Learning because you want to
April 4th, 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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31 day comment challenge reflections
May 18th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Learning, Tools, Web 2.0
How are our online conversations part of our own learning? I’ve been loosely participating in the 31 Day Comment Challenge, (which is an effort to focus on improving blog comments through various activities.) It’s been a little bit of a learning curve for me to figure out how to use coComment, which is the tool we [...]
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