Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
Some of this post has been in my drafts folder for maybe a couple of months now. It was inspired by some planning work that Katie and I were doing for a workshop at reMAKE Education in California the week before last ((More on that in another post.)). It’s also inspired by a conversation I […]
Read More On Boundaries, Constraints, & KitsI’m writing a series of posts about my experiences at CMK. They’re not necessarily in chronological order. They’ll all make better sense together, so check back and read the whole series. At CMK, Carla Rinaldi shared with us powerful experiences from the Reggio Emilia perspective. There’s much to say about her talk, the feelings it […]
Read More #CMK18 – Building The Metaphor MuseI’m writing a series of posts about my experiences at CMK. They’re not necessarily in chronological order. They’ll all make better sense together, so check back and read the whole series. On the night before the project carnival at CMK, the makerspace stays open late. As I’d spent the afternoon working on and off with […]
Read More #CMK18 – Writing Poems in the MakerspaceI’ve come to really appreciate the writing of Benjamin Doxdator. His blog posts are thoughtful and take me places I haven’t been before while helping me think in some new and interesting ways. His reflection on his first day of CMK is one of those. In it, he describes his thinking on making after a […]
Read More #CMK18 – Artifacts Both Full of Care & Worth Caring ForThree incidents today, all tied up in the same big idea, but each their own moment ((I thought an awful lot about Alan’s recent post on blogging all day long, too. So know it’s in here somewhere, too.)). The moments first. This morning I was in a meeting with several of my colleagues on a […]
Read More Letting Go Of What You LoveThis morning at PLA, I heard Sherry Turkle speak on her current research into conversation, a continuation of her work on exploring what happens to people mediated by, through and with technology. It was a useful talk – lots of stuff worth remembering in there. I was struck by her emphasis on empathy and […]
Read More #PLA2016: Sherry Turkle and the Power of ConversationI’m speaking tomorrow with my wife’s college course for preservice teachers on the teaching of writing. I’m the featured expert on “digital writing.” Whatever that is. Over the last week, the students in the course have been jotting some questions and thoughts down on a Google doc in preparation for the session. I basically asked […]
Read More What’s This Digital Writing Stuff, Anyway?I’d never really thought about it, but I didn’t realize until a couple of weeks ago, when Alan Levine said that he’d be in the area and we should meet up, that he and I had never been in the same place at the same time. We know plenty of the same people, we play […]
Read More “Let’s Find Out,” Writes CogdogThis post is a bit dated – found it in the drafts folder, dusted it off, and am sharing it now.. The request hasn’t left my mind since offered a couple of months ago. I ended up have an unexpected visit with a mentor of mine yesterday. It’d been a while since we’d talked and […]
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