Funny the little moments of serendipity that lead from one thought to one another, and lead us to see something in a new light. This morning, someone on Twitter reminded me of a blog post I wrote a long time ago, “How Long Does it Have to be?” about how students focused on the length [...]
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Do we care what they say?
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Student projects, Teacher Learner
Better than donuts?
January 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Educon 2.0, Teacher Learner
I’ve probably written this post before. But a long conversation with a teacher brought up my concerns with inservices yet again. We know what works for inservice–prolonged coverage of a subject, a mission that people buy into, small groups, choice, and self-directed learning. We also know that sometimes a district needs to convey information/techniques/methods [...]
How easy is it to connect? A simple recipe
August 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Professional Learning Community, Teacher Learner
Take one part having a few Twitter contacts. Add one enthused teacher who wants to try out Skype. Dial up a few friends on Skype randomly(who you met via Twitter). Hope someone is nice enough to turn on their webcam to demonstrate (thanks Karl) and off we go. Now we have a teacher in Texas [...]
Where they live?
March 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Teacher Learner
During dinner last night with some of my Twitter colleagues who were in town for the COSN conference, I was pondering a question I really am curious about. A teacher and I were talking yesterday about Facebook and work he is doing with a science organization for college students and professors. The organization had a [...]
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The writing way
January 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Teacher Learner
Recently, I’ve been involved in a group studying Julie Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way. One of the tenets of her book is writing what she calls “morning pages”–several pages of uncensored, stream of consciousness writing that is done first thing in the morning. The idea is to clear your head of other thoughts which interfere [...]
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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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Continuing the conversations
May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner
The end of the school year always feels like a mixed bag–excitement at the thought of relaxation and summertime, but wistfulness and sadness at saying farewell to the year, with students and friends leaving, and with things left undone, potential unfulfilled. But usually it feels over. Like things are packed up–put away, set aside, and [...]
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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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The classroom heard ’round the world
February 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
What happens when what is going on in your classroom can be shared around the world? Today, by sharing his students at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, Karl Fisch gave us just that opportunity–to peer into a classroom and see networked, scaffolded, engaged students at their best. For weeks, students in several English classes at [...]
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Coming back home
February 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
In his post last week, “Changing Ourselves, Changing Our Culture,” Will Richardson finds irony in the fact that “teachers are connecting more and more outside their spaces but, it appears at least, not so much inside their own districts and communities.” I’ve found that to be true for myself until recently. I’ve had only a [...]
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