Comments on: Digital Is. Or Isn’t. Or Always (Never?) Was. Or Not.

By: When Badges Backfire | Bud the Teacher

When Badges Backfire | Bud the Teacher — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:35:15 +0000

[...] of the fringe work may well kill the work that you were trying to cultivate. It might be that the fringe was what made the work, ahem, work. # And so the badge saps the motivation from those who were already motivated and kills [...]

By: Digging Out My Sash | Bud the Teacher

Digging Out My Sash | Bud the Teacher — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:16:31 +0000

[...] pass on their test of competency? # Badges as a way of honoring non-school learning # I’ve written before about how I find some of the most interesting learning taking place on the edge of school and home, [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:39:31 +0000

For me that in-between space is interesting in a lot of ways. It reminds me of ARGs and the way people are playing with narratives that play out online and in the real world, in text and multimedia. The additional ways the stories change based on interactions with the audience is really interesting to me. It seems this kind of writing fits in a lot of in-between spaces (school/home, fun/learning, real/electronic, text/media, narrative/puzzle)

I want to do this but haven’t made the time.

By: NWP Take Aways | BlogWalker

NWP Take Aways | BlogWalker — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:56:35 +0000

[...] lag, and a mad dash to clean and cook for Thanksgiving, I’ll tap into a thoughtful posts by Bud Hunt to provide insight into the NWP [...]

By: Terry C Elliott

Terry C Elliott — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:48:25 +0000

I, too, heard many times what amounted to, "It's the tool-user, stupid, not the tool!" I wanted to respond that I agreed up to a point. I am a firm believer in repertoire. That is the content of edtech teachers. You have to have a series of 'moves' that flow from your content and through the tools. If you have Hitchcock on your iPod touch then the content can flow through you and then back to you then back. The key is to choose the tools that facilitate the free and easy movement from the mind and back to the mind. .-= Terry C Elliott´s last blog ..Kentucky Writing Project Teacher in Censorship Struggle =-.

By: Grading Is Easy; Teaching Is Hard at Classroots.org

Grading Is Easy; Teaching Is Hard at Classroots.org — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:59 +0000

[...] of the school day or limited to what @budtheteacher calls “semi-school environments” in this reflection on Day 1 of the National Writing Project’s meeting at this year’s NCTE conference. [...]

By: john bishp

john bishp — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:55 +0000

great blog post, Bud. i lost my rambling early morning coffee’d up tome of a response b/c i apparently didn’t fill in all the correct information. prob not a bad thing, i might have put some words in your mouth. the skinny though: agree that the in vs. out-of-school conversation is an important one. on one hand, i dont want to ditch the public schools in mississippi–how vibrant (to steal Reneah Hobbs sp? word from the youth voices panel last night) to embed youth media composition in our schools when were buying SmartBoards and using them for LCD screens. however, i find myself looking for other venues–afterschool and summer spaces–for the path of least resistance and for the option to create a “space” somewhat different from school, visually, expectationally (i just made that word up), etc. thanks for your thoughtful post and i got a glimpse of Digital Is…i’ll admit i was jealous i wasn’t there but these posts are a fantastic way for me to hear and see what happened. thanks john bishop
.-= john bishp´s last blog ..johnbishop_smwp: @pkittle http://www.fox.com/watch/glee =-.

By: Bill Ferriter

Bill Ferriter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:02:51 +0000

Lots of good thinking here, Bud.

This point resonated with me:

“It seems like many (but certainly not all) of the projects I looked at today were created in semi-school environments. By that, I mean that they were created in after-school programs or through work that students are engaged in outside of the traditional classroom. ”

I’m finding that a lot of the interesting work I do with composing (great term, by the way) DOES take place outside of the regular classroom, primarily because I’m under constant pressure to follow a pacing guide and to get through massive curricula inside the regular classroom.

And that makes me wonder about a lot of things:

1. Does that create a new avenue for achievement gaps? Will students who can stay after school because mom can come and pick them up have skill sets that other students won’t have access to?

2. Will teachers who are mastering these kinds of skills with students in outside clubs eventually become the disrupting force that Christensen and company talk about in Disrupting Class—-offering opportunities that can’t be accessed in the regular classroom and then translating that work to new learning settings?

3. Would that be a bad thing, or is it exactly the kind of change we need in schools?

Either way….Thanks for the thinking this morning,
Bill
.-= Bill Ferriter´s last blog ..Part 2: Using Student Responders Responsibly =-.

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