Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
For the last several years, I’ve used this blog every April as . It’s been fun, but I’m thinking it’s time to do something different and possibly combine efforts. Ben Rimes has a great site up at Poetry for People where he’s posting visual prompts and folks are sharing poems. This month, let’s spend […]
Read More It's National Poetry Month – Go Write (And Read) Some PoemsOne of my takeaways from the DML 2012 conference is that the messages of connected learning have not quite caught up yet with the practices of academic conferences. It’s a common complaint – both that I hear and that I sometimes make – that the learning spaces that we want for children should at least […]
Read More #DML2012 – The Experience of Listening. Was (Too Often) All.Engchat 2011 from Ben Grey on Vimeo. ((Special thanks to Ben for spending time capturing this work.))
Read More #ISTE11: #engchat ReflectionDamon Lindelof on Lost: We don’t live in a media culture anymore where you can write a show like Lost, where the people who care about it really care about it, and then say to them: ”We’re not going to talk to you about it.” via ‘Lost’: The Final Word | EW.com.
Read More Getting LostTeachers should create. Coversations can lead to tremendous bursts of creation and excitement. Capturing creation through writing and returning to it later is how innovative ideas are refined. Enter #EduConText. Each day leading up to EduCon, Zac Chase and I will write about some of our thinking surrounding selected EduCon sessions. We’ll also share some […]
Read More Enter #EduConTextRight now, according to Sir Ken Robinson, my children are at the peak of their viagra usa divergent thinking abilities. And those will diminish as they advance in their schooling. Uh oh. So, how do we build schools that amplify, rather than eradicate, divergent thinking? This is not an idle question. Watch the video and […]
Read More The Clock's TickingHow might you punctuate the words below in ways that create different meanings? Might hyperlinks serve as punctuation, too? I haven’t a clue, just thinking out loud, but I can think of at least three ways to punctuate those words below, each creating very different meanings, not including hyperlinks. You? The words in question: I […]
Read More Hyperlinks as Punctuation?Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
Read More I’ll Miss You, Rocky. Thanks for Everything.It was about a year ago that D’Arcy Norman suggested that, if folks wanted to, we might challenge ourselves to shoot a photo a day for the year 2008 and share as many of them as possible. I didn’t do so hot about the sharing part, but I’ve managed to work the question “What’s today’s […]
Read More Seeing Mindfully, Thanks to D’ArcyI am sitting in the lobby of my hotel in San Antonio, waiting for the shuttle to take me back to the airport. For the first time since I arrived here, I am sitting at a full keyboard to write instead of frantically thumbing words into my iPhone keyboard. Here in the lobby, I have […]
Read More NCTE Brain Dump