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Oct
5
Facing Facebook
Category: Social Responsibility, books I like, connecting online, cyberbullying, education, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 
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Some people say ‘kids will be kids’… Some adults have never forgotten what it felt like to be a victim.
What happens when adults are not present?
Sometimes kids do things they shouldn’t do. Sometimes kids make choices based on what their friends do rather than on what they know is the right thing to do.
Sometimes the […]
Sep
16
Who are the people in your neighbourhood?
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 18 Comments
I grew up watching Sesame Street and singing along to ‘Who are the people in your neighbourhood‘.
Well the concept of neighbourhood has really changed for me. I showed this movie in Powerpoint format at one of my presentations at BLC08 this summer. Afterwards, I think it was one of 3 people, (Liz Davis, Laura Deisley, […]
Sep
12
1-to-1 presentation
Category: School2.0, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, presentation, restructuring, technology | 2 Comments
A year ago I went to see my friends Dave Sands and Brian Kuhn presenting to parents that were part of a 1-1 (one laptop per child) pilot program at a Middle School. Little did I know that I’d be moved to that same school as the Vice Principal in February, and that I’d be […]
Aug
14
Are You a Catalyst for Change?
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, School2.0, Social Responsibility, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring | 7 Comments
It is now a month after BLC08 and a recent comment has stirred up some thoughts that sent me back to a blog draft I wrote months ago. On Defragging my brain after BLC08, Angela Kerns mentioned that of my nine ‘take-aways’, #3 and #4 resonated with her:
3. Face-to-face meetings with your network are powerful… […]
May
31
Most Influential
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 1 Comment
We are influenced by so many things in our lives. Identifying what has a significant influence on us can be difficult. Here are two things that I believe can be categorized as most influential… and they both happened Monday.
1. Fifteen year old Kristine wrote a very influential blog post last May. It coincided with […]
May
4
The Capacity to Lead
Category: compassion, education, leadership, learning, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, student leadership | 1 Comment
Students of all ages have the capacity to lead.
For a few years now I have taken a group of Grade 7 and 8 students to our feeder schools to teach the incoming Grade 5’s the “Seven Secrets of Leadership”, but really it is about so much more than that!
This is from the e-mail I send […]
Apr
30
Wikis in the classroom: a reflection.
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 4 Comments
Well here it is, my completed Science Alive Wiki.
After an incident delayed getting feedback from my students until last Monday, things got extremely busy with preparation for the Renaissance Fair and my Grade 5 Transition Retreats [the subject of a future post]. All this included 3 afternoons out of my classroom at other functions… I […]
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 […]
Mar
30
Christopher D. Sessums’ “Competing Paradigms and Educational Reform”
Category: Pedegogy, education, learning, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
A great article: Competing Paradigms and Educational Reform that asks,
What has this dominant paradigm actually done for public education except manufacture a crisis?
Not only does it list initiatives and consequences of this paradigm (read the post!), it also suggests a paradigm shift with the following perspective:
• Human freedom and empowerment are more […]
