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May
18
Two ’stuck’ posts, a borrowed post with an added rant, and a few questions.
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 
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I have 2 blog posts on the go right now that I can’t get myself to complete.
One is on Digital Citizenship which looks at a post by Vicky A. Davis. The concepts I am formulating are in need of some more deep thought, and I don’t know when I will get […]
May
11
Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy!
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, digital native, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 4 Comments
Amy Capelle has started a very interesting discussion in Ning’s Classroom2.0
She asks, “Are they really digital natives?”
The discussion there is great! Here is my response:
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Apr
26
$3,881.65 for one night’s work
Category: compassion, education, leadership, learning, pairadimes, student leadership | Leave a Comment
…more on Empathy.
Friday night I camped out at the school with 49 students, each raising a minimum of $50- to earn the opportunity to sleep over at the school. We hosted a 24 hour famine to raise money for our Me to We Club… we are fundraising to build a school in Sierra Leone.
It was […]
Apr
14
Marking What Counts and Reporting on Report Cards
Category: Pedegogy, education, learning, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring | Leave a Comment
“Just because something can be counted,
doesn’t mean it counts,
and just because something is difficult to count,
doesn’t mean it doesn’t count.”
Subbaraman Iyer
In my first year of teaching, another first year teacher on my team, Ken Andrews, designed a marking system for Humanities (English and Social Studies combined). In his system […]
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
5
Synthesize and Add Meaning
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes | 2 Comments
Going back to Time, (See Square Peg, Round Hole)
Wesley Fryer’s ‘Moving at the speed of creativity’, refers to the Time cover story, How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century, in his post, 21st Century Education reform.
In reference to this quote in the Time article:
“In an age of overflowing information and proliferating media, […]
Apr
3
David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference Keynote 2006
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, books I like, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
Here is the gem I took from David Warlick’s Keynote “Derailing Education“. Warlick is referring to Friedman’s ‘Experts’ and ‘Adaptable People’… from The World Is Flat.
“These are the kinds of people that need to be coming out of our classrooms, people who know how to make themselves an expert and people who can learn, and […]
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