Want to get some summer inservice without dealing with airports, rain and flight delays? If anyone is eager to hear some fascinating speakers like Tim Tyson, Marc Prensky, Alan November, Chris Lehmann or Christian Long, and is interested in using Skype, David Jakes is planning to skypecast some of the sessions from the Building Learning [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Teacher Learner'
Reflective learning — following the conversation
July 13, 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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Pieces loosely joined
July 2, 2007 · No Comments · Change, NECC07, Teacher Learner
What follows is a random assortment, pieces loosely joined, from sessions that I attended at NECC. I’m sharing these fragments here as a way of helping myself make meaning of them, and to invite discussion of these significant questions for schools, and for libraries specifically. Feel free to share your thoughts. Barbara Kurshan–from Curriki– [...]
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In “perpetual beta”
July 1, 2007 · 2 Comments · Laptops, NECC07, Search tools, Teacher Learner
In her presentation at NECC on information fluency, Joyce Valenza described how she sees herself as “version 1.8,” in perpetual beta, because she is always learning. What a great way to project to your students and staff that you are always in the process of “upgrading” and exploring new things. She pointed out that students often [...]
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Teaching that leaves a mark
June 20, 2007 · No Comments · Teacher Learner
I just got back from seeing a new mockumentary film, Chalk, which was filmed at a high school here in Austin. Think of the program “The Office” set in a school, and you get the general idea. While the school portrayed in the film certainly wasn’t what we’d call a “21st century school” or an [...]
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Uncharted territory
May 28, 2007 · 5 Comments · Staff development, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
School ended on Saturday(a makeup ice day)though I am working for a couple more weeks, teaching workshops, etc. So I’ve been a bit quiet due to the rush of end of school, library, and family events, but also just needing some time to back off and reflect. There’s a lot to process about the last year, [...]
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Saying “yes”
February 23, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Teacher Learner, Will Richardson
Will Richardson talked about friction points caused by new technologies and the rapid pace of change. When I heard Lawrence Lessig talk at U.T. about copyright, he was talking about how innovators created this new system of copyright because the law wasn’t changing fast enough to meet the web 2.0 environment. As I sat there [...]
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Of finding our passion
February 19, 2007 · No Comments · Teacher Learner
I got the opportunity to hear Erin Gruwell (of Freedom Writers fame) speak recently and was moved by what her passion inspired in her students. I heard Will Richardson talk about the importance of helping students find their passion. And today, I read this simple and eloquent advice on finding our own and living it [...]
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Do our students know how we learn?
February 7, 2007 · 1 Comment · Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
A lot of thoughts were raised during Will Richardson’s presentations yesterday, but a few that stick with me– Do our students know how we learn? and who is in our learning network? who do we connect to? On one blog he mentioned, Blog of Proximal Development, Konrad Glogowski had a discussion recently of that very topic. [...]
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