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By Design: Please keep the toilet seat in the upright position!
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, Square Peg, blogging, books I like, connecting online, education, humour, instructional design, leadership, learning, lessons, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 
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[This post is about questioning why we do what we do, so that we can do things in new, better ways. It specifically looks at design, differentiated instruction and assessment.]
I’m going to flush out an idea here and maybe even start a movement!
If you want to sit on a dry toilet seat, then […]
Jun
25
A light look at some actual Grade 4 & 5 test questions and responses at my wife’s school:
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How do you think the Wright brothers felt after the first flight. Why?
Good. They did something good for once.
Do you think jet airplanes have changed our lives for the better? Why?
No. Pollution, hello?
—From Andrew
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How do you think […]
May
17
INDEXED - a ‘graph’ is worth a thousand words
Category: Learning Conversations, blogging, education, humour, metaphor, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
Jessica Hagy uses graphs to make sense of our world. She is deft at finding hidden truths in places we all look at, but are blind to. I will share one such graph with you now, and link to two more on her blog…. head there and find your own favorites.
Interesting people are interested.
I have […]
Apr
14
Licensed To Pill: We live in an over-prescribed (and over-labelled) society.
Category: Square Peg, humour, metaphor, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
Licensed To Pill
Comedy or social commentary?
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New voices: #3 of 7, this blog is probably better read than mine, but again I think it is invaluable for educators to read: The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk.
In a recent post, Labels and Limits, David quotes a Washington Post article, “Increasing […]
Mar
27
Pizzas and Paperclips
Category: humour, networks, pairadimes, technology | Leave a Comment
I am combining two short posts here:
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Ordering a pizza in in the near future.
Turn your speakers on for this one… a little dark humour about living in a wired world. Ordering from Pizza Palace.
Originally posted April 6th, 2006
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One Red Paperclip
We live […]
