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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 […]
May
27
November Learning
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, Square Peg, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring | Leave a Comment
After my last post I went to hear Alan November speak at an afternoon Pro-D session. I then read Brian Kuhn’s blog post and added a comment, which I have edited slightly and included below. In the process of writing this comment I realized a valuable lesson, which I will discuss below the comment:
The afternoon […]
May
3
bRinging tools to class
Category: Learning Conversations, School2.0, Square Peg, digital native, education, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
Today during a Math lesson on Surface Area and Volume:
Mr. Truss, I forgot my calculator, can I borrow one?
Do you have your cell phone?
Yes?
Then you have a calculator.
Really? I can use my cell phone?
Really!
Cell phones and mp3 players in the classroom: Not Obstacles but Opportunities
“Kids are […]
May
2
How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
Category: Learning Conversations, School2.0, Square Peg, books I like, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
… continue teaching school like it is 1890.
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
-LEONARDO DA VINCI
Here it is from Kris, a 15 year-old former student, “How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci“.
I think this post should be mandatory for every student teacher to read before they graduate.
I can hear the rebuttals, and […]
Apr
22
Phosphorescent Posts: metaphor surfing for bright ideas
Category: Square Peg, books I like, connecting online, learning, metaphor, pairadimes | 2 Comments
My most recent post, “I’m a mop not a sponge” , highlighted a metaphorical epiphany that one of my students had about his learning style. This post will look at metaphors I have found on my journeys through the blogosphere since then.
2 rules to my quest:
1. The post title must contain a metaphor.
2. The meaning […]
Apr
14
The Web2.0 Prophecy: An Adventure
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Square Peg, blogging, books I like, connecting online, digital native, education, leadership, learning, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 4 Comments
Originally posted: March 13th, 2007
Reflection upon re-reading and re-posting:
Until now I have been adding my reflection at the end of these re-posts. However, I thought with this post it should come first. Why? Because it is important that I share the date of the original post before quoting other bloggers who were […]
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 […]
Apr
8
Learning Conversations
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Square Peg, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 1 Comment
Learning Conversation_ Part I
It was refreshing to hear Maureen Dockendorf, our staff development co-ordinator, (Director of Instruction), speak at our Building Leadership Capacity (BLC*) series introduction.
She encouraged us to become ‘intellectual companions’ that enter into ‘learning conversations’. The part I liked most about her talk was the direction of the conversation. She spoke of:
Not the […]
Apr
8
Articulate Your Thinking… (an e-mail correspondence)
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Square Peg, books I like, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
In my last post about my Numeracy Tasks Pro-D session with Peter Liljedahl, I mentioned an e-mail I wrote almost 3 years ago. I dug up that e-mail and found an interesting ‘conversation’ between Gary Kern and I. My comments are after the e-mails.
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From:David
Sent:May 10, 2004 9:55 PM
To: [Our Math […]
Apr
4
Square Peg, Round Hole
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Square Peg, education, instructional design, learning, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 4 Comments
A composition of other people’s thoughts and ideas… with a theme.
How to Bring our Schools Out of the 20th Century by Claudia Wallis, Sonja Steptoe, Time Magazine cover story Dec. 18, 2006
“For the past five years, the national conversation on education has focused on reading scores, math tests and closing the “achievement gap” between social […]
