Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
As part of our work this year in the Digital Learning Collaborative, we are going to be engaging in some teacher research. The was to start thinking through possible questions. Michelle and I are eating our own dog food – we’ll be trying to conduct our own studies. Back in May, I wrote some about […]
Read More I'm Wondering: Starting Some InquiryGene Thompson-Grove’s foreward to the second edition of The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Classroom Research begins with a fine definition of the dispositions of a teacher researcher: All of this, of course, requires certain dispositions. It means we must, at times, slow down and be reflective. We must develop the intellectual side of ourselves — […]
Read More I Think I’m Going to Like This BookThe Digital Learning Collaborative, a project I love and spend ever more of my time with, will be taking a large cohort of teachers through the work of conducting teacher research on and in their classrooms over the next couple of years. That’s pretty exciting to me, for teacher research has been in my blood […]
Read More Teacher Researcher at WorkThe more I work as a professional developer and teacher of teachers, the more I am resolved that I will do my best to never create a resource for one situation that cannot be useful in another. There are too few of me and too many needs in my district to do otherwise. I think, […]
Read More Connective Writing: Multi-PurposingAt the risk of getting a little too meta, I’m going to be talking through my history of thinking about linking, or conective writing, today during CyberCamp as a part of our series of “Works in Progress” conversations. I’m inviting you, if you’re interested, mostly to help me model how a backchannel and uStream conversation […]
Read More WiP#0 – Talking 'bout Thinking 'bout LinkingThis podcast, one of several I recorded today at the Colorado Podcast Summit, is a conversation from the end of the day with several podcasters and other educators, discussing data, action research, and podcasting. I thought it was an interesting conversation – I hope you do, too. The discussion was moderated by Brent […]
Read More The Podcast: Thinking about Data and PodcastingI’m at the airport in Hartford waiting for my ride to Denver (NOTE: I began this post there. Finished it @ home. – BH). I’m sucking down podcast updates on the free wi-fi here at the airport so this seems like the right time to try to capture some of my thinking about […]
Read More Reflecting on Web PresenceBeen quiet lately. It’s one of those weeks that’s about introspection. I’ve been writing a little, though, and I thought I’d point you to the post I just put up at the . Take a peek. If you’d like, you can join us in our Book Club which begins […]
Read More A Quiet WeekCindy, director of the (check out — lots of great interactive stuff!), wrote up her experience at the first session of our .
Read More Building BloggersI don’t know yet if I like Doug‘s model for teaching transparently, but I like the philosophy. I just don’t know if publishing my lesson plans is a useful way to be transparent. (His handouts section is a winner, though.) Steve Burt also mentions transparency (and administrative nervousness about it) in a […]
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