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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What do we celebrate?
February 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Learning
Perhaps there should be an adage–what we celebrate, gets done. The issue of celebration has been cropping up lately, both in discussions on campus and in my extended network. When we are doing something well in our district classrooms or libraries, is that being celebrated within the district (as well as without?) We celebrate the [...]
Lock, stock, and barrel
December 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Learning, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
I don’t often write ’inside info’ kind of posts, but in the last two days, I witnessed an amazing example of a learning network in action. Twitter, a site I’m a huge fan of as many of you know, announced it would be going down for maintenance for most of Saturday. Since a number of us rely on [...]
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Testing carried too far?
November 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Future students, Learning
In Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Sir Ken Robinson astutely makes the case that unless we understand the education system that the future demands of us, then our efforts to create testing systems will not prepare us for that future. He points to the increasingly rapid rate of technological change that is [...]
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Hearing student voices
November 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Learning, Teacher Learner
Our campus staff development started its second strand last week–centered around the theme of authentic student engagement. (Our staff development period is built into the school day once each week). To begin the series, we on the staff development committee decided to invite panels of students to speak to our staff about how they [...]
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Textbooks meet web 2.0
November 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Learning
In a tremendously insightful post, educational consultant Lee Wilson recommends ten strategies that publishers should consider to harness the power of web 2.0 (and to preserve their businesses I might add). As these tools become more and more integral to educators, textbook(and reference book) publishers will have to transform themselves into more accessible media. Some [...]
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Collaborative research–Rethinking the model
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Collaboration, Future students, Learning, libraries, Research
As I have been doing some reading all summer, my whole notion of research is shifting somewhat. Maybe it is reflecting the shift that many of our students are living, as well. I’m coming to realize more and more that although in schools we treat research as a somewhat solitary activity, in its true form, [...]
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The Long View
August 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Learning, Student projects, Teacher Learner
I’m joining Patrick Higgins today via Skype for a workshop he’s conducting on web 2.0 for teachers in his district. The plan is for me to share the Vietnam Wall project that our English 3 AP students completed last spring, so I’ve been looking through my post about it, re-viewing some of the student projects, [...]
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Making the potion: Focusing on the research process
July 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Learning, Research, Student projects, Web 2.0
A few days ago, I wrote about reflective learning, and really identified with Will Richardson’s and David Warlick’s comments about focusing on the learning and community, and how the process sometimes gets lost in the production of the product. Ironically, as I was reading Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix last night, I noticed that [...]
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Reflective learning — following the conversation
July 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Change, Learning, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Will Richardson
What is the real shift in how our students learn and how we teach? I spoke on the phone recently with a good friend of mine who taught with me an eon ago She went back to teaching last year for the first time in 15 years, and commented to me that when [...]
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