Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
I sat in on a meeting today of the organizers of our school district’s Innovation Academy, a summer STEM enrichment program that’s a partnership between the district and IBM. ((Last year, the project was called Camp Innovation. Names change. I like the camp metaphor, but it wasn’t my call.)) The DLC will be embedding a […]
Read More Schooling That Isn't School-ySo I’ve been teaching facilitating provoking facilitating over in the new School of Ed at P2PU, and I’d say that it’s been going pretty well. Or, as least, it seems to be. But it’s a different sort of course than the ones I’ve been teaching in computer labs and hotel ballrooms and virtual meeting rooms […]
Read More On Being Still in a Motion MediumI took a quick peek at the Mozilla Open Badges project a little while back, and liked what I saw. It’s cialis professional an attempt to create an open infrastructure for badges around the Web. I like the technical pieces that allow anyone to offer any badge to anyone else in a consistent way. It […]
Read More Digging Out My SashOn Thursday night, I was helping to introduce the concept of teacher research to a group of teachers in my school district. And it happened. The thing that often happens when you introduce qualitative methodology. We read a sample teacher research study that Michelle and I are fond of. I like the study, a short […]
Read More What CountsTonight, we kicked off the first team leader meeting of the year for the new cohort of the Digital Learning Collaborative. The DLC, if you didn’t know, is a two-year professional development program we’re in our third year of developing. Year one is a year for personal and professional learning. Year two, which we’ll kickoff […]
Read More A Year of LearningThis post lived in the depths of my drafts folder. I brought it out tonight because it seemed the right time. Too often lately, I’ve read statements from teachers that sound something like this: “We have to give students voice” or “We have to give our students control over their learning.” Sure. Students should have […]
Read More I Can’t Give That to You. No One Can.I had the opportunity earlier this week to sit in on a conversation with teacher librarians and other media staff during a kickoff event to start the school year. We were sharing some lunch and talking about our hopes for the year – specifically, we were discussing how we will be working to build libraries […]
Read More Safe Places & What Is Yet To ComeSo I’m giving a short “setting the mood” talk today to a school that is up to some interesting work. They’ll be spending the next couple of days working through some play and exploration around many of the tools available to them to help them in the work of teaching and learning. And I’m supposed […]
Read More “Interactions with Technology Should Be Playful.” (Yep.)I’m off again on a short vacation, but I couldn’t let this paragraph escape at least a word or two. Over the weekend, Bill Gates was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. From the piece: One of the foundation’s main initial interests was schools with fewer students. In 2004 it announced that it would spend […]
Read More Determining FailureCross-posted from Voices from the Learning Revolution, where I write sometimes. Recently, Justin Hamilton, @EdPressSec on Twitter, asked folks to state what they believe regarding education policy. No, that’s not quite right – what he actually said was this: Specifically, he, after being a little bit mistreated by some folks who don’t understand civil dialogue, […]
Read More I Believe. You?