Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
Teachers 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 #EduConTextThis post has been a long time coming, and is probably going to be painful to write. But I need to try to write my way through it, so here goes. I’ve been noticing a shift in my tone lately, from my usual kind and questioning self to someone a bit angrier and less willing […]
Read More On Curmudgeonliness or Why I’m Not Going to Say “Yeah, Yeah,” But I’m At Least Going to Try To Be More Nice About ItIn this podcast, recorded on my way in to the ISTE 2010 conference this morning, I talk through my conference experience so far. I mention the Leadership Bootcamp, some of Chris’s thoughts about events like those, a conversation I’m having with Dean about digital writing, and some other highlights, as well as a concern I […]
Read More The Podcast: ISTE 2010 Monday Brain DumpOn today’s podcast, I attempt to answer a series of Twitter questions from Nawal about how to promote writing environments that help students to (as Will calls it.) I also rant a bit about “blogging units” (I’m against ’em.) Somewhere in there, I reference George Hillocks’ really excellent metaanalysis of composition instruction studies (PDF) and […]
Read More The Podcast: Bloggin' in the RainThis is first draft thinking if ever such a thing existed. And it’s selfish. And personal. And close to home. Ani goes to Kindergarten in the fall, so we spent the winter investigating schools around our town. We were looking for places that felt right for us – evidence of care and thoughtfulness, ties to […]
Read More Motivation, Cash & Literacy: I Despise AR. Should I?I spent today engaged in some work with the and several of their thinking partners at the Digital Is . . . Convening event, a day of structured thinking and looking and conversation about what it means to write and teach writing at a time of such profound technological change in the world and, perhaps, […]
Read More Digital Is. Or Isn't. Or Always (Never?) Was. Or Not.Today is the , which is the reason for this podcast, recorded as I headed home thinking about the writing I’ve been up to today. I’m so grateful for this time to think about writing and its place in my life. What . How and when and where and how do you write and celebrate […]
Read More The Podcast: I'm Writing Right NowEarlier today, I sent a link to a student’s Twitter account to a staff member in the school he attends with a request that she share the link with a counselor in the school. I read some things that caused me to worry for him. Nothing too extreme, the sorts of things that kids, particularly […]
Read More Intruding. In Public.I’m spending some time today with the folks at Flagstaff Academy in Longmont and digging into an old bag of tricks. Can you guess which slide is the yarn slide? Flagstaff folk – I hope we can continue some of the conversations that we started today here in the comments. I’d love to hear your […]
Read More The Textile NetworkI’m sitting in today on a session at one of our elementary schools where the group of teachers is looking deeply at inquiry and how it works at school. We’ve just been given a copy of Michael Klentschy and Laurie Thompson’s book, Scaffolding Science Inquiry Through Lesson Design and have been asked to take a […]
Read More Klentschy & Thompson – Scaffolding Science Inquiry