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Aug
16
beg for foregiveness
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, lessons, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 
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Sometimes it is better to beg for forgiveness
than it is to ask for permission.
We’ve all heard that before, but we can’t all be Gary Stager and do what we want when we want. [Please see the first two comments for some clarification on this statement.] Sometimes we have to be political, sometimes we have to […]
Jul
17
Learning Conversations -Presentation 2, BLC08
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, connecting online, education, leadership, lessons, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 4 Comments
This presentation has two parts:
1. Where do our learning conversations need to go? Here are three guiding principles to help us find our way:
• Not the Knowing, but the Process of Inquiry.
• Not covering the curriculum, but ‘uncovering’ the curriculum.
• A focus in innovation, creativity and design.
How do we model this… every day?
Here is a […]
May
25
Making a Difference
Category: compassion, lessons, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
Here is a great thing to do with your online students: Donate Free Rice to help end world hunger… (and improve their vocabulary while you are at it!)
Here is a news article about it, in case you would like to use it for current events.
Advertising at the bottom of the […]
May
24
The Lowest Common Denominator (No, this isn’t about Math)
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, leadership, learning, lessons, networks, pairadimes, presentation, reflection | 2 Comments
The LCD
In Math, the Lowest Common Denominator (LCD) is a good thing…
it allows you to simplify an equation and usually makes the work easier. (If you were looking for a Math post go here or here.)
For the sake of this post the LCD is not good.
Here, the LCD is when you reduce things to in […]
May
19
Halloween Scavenger Hunt on Ning
Category: Pedegogy, School2.0, compassion, connecting online, digital native, education, learning, lessons, networks, pairadimes, technology | Leave a Comment
Below is a Halloween Scavenger Hunt I did on a (private) Ning Network that I created for a class Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) project I am doing in my two Planning 10 classes.
The scavenger hunt does the following:
Introduces students to flickr and , and;
It teaches them to insert and site a photo […]
Apr
26
More than one face to Cyberbullying in the classroom
Category: Learning Conversations, connecting online, cyberbullying, education, lessons, pairadimes, technology | Leave a Comment
I apologize in advance for the clinical nature of my description below… these are students currently in my class, and this blog is open for anyone to read.
Background: Student 1 is male; Students 2 & 3 are female. Student 1 and 2 ‘dated’ earlier in the year. Student 1 and 3 are good friends… “But […]
Apr
25
“Who Have You Helped Today?” - Developing Empathy
Category: compassion, education, learning, lessons, pairadimes, reflection | Leave a Comment
Prelude
Two Brothers, Craig and Marc Kielburger, are my modern day heroes.
Tonight Marc is having dinner with Oprah Winfrey. The brothers’ US office is hosted by Oprah. They have had an audience with Mother Teresa. They have been featured on Oprah, CNN, CBC, BBC, and 60 Minutes. They are sought after speakers that have shared the […]
Apr
24
A Giant Teaches Me About SUCCESS: a “what are your secrets to a successful life” meme
Category: compassion, learning, lessons, metaphor, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
I’ve been tagged with a “what are your secrets to a successful life” meme by Kelly Christopherson. To be honest, I was dreading being tagged by a meme… I knew it was going to come eventually, but my writing process, my flow, seldom lends itself to creating lists… they are too linear for my big […]
Apr
18
Vandals, Vulgarity and Victims
Category: Learning Conversations, blogging, compassion, cyberbullying, lessons, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection | 2 Comments
Until last year, this odd negative/neon image was the only public image you could find of me on the web. In fact currently, many of my online sites still have this image. I like the photo, people who know me recognize me in it, and it was taken on a hot air balloon trip with […]
Apr
17
Assessment & Rote Learning: Math Conundrums
Category: Pedegogy, Pro-D, education, learning, lessons, pairadimes | 3 Comments
Multiply Two Negatives and You Get a Positive.
So, I take ‘Rote Learning’ and multiply that by ‘Teaching to the Test’ and that equals ‘Better Standardized Test Results’? Well, that’s not exactly what this post is about… but this is a good lead in. And for those of you that don’t know why -3 x -4 […]
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