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Apr
23
“Some Assembly Required”
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 
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I thought I was going to spend the long weekend reading my book for our book club, but I had a Whole New challenge instead: Putting together a million piece puzzle for my kids to play on in our back yard…. swings, monkey bars, slide, fort, climbing wall, and picnic bench all neatly packed in […]
Apr
19
“I’m a mop not a sponge”: Metaphors all the way down
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A well-known scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up […]
Apr
18
on being a blogger…
Category: Learning Conversations, blogging, cyberbullying, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection | Leave a Comment
How is a post inspired? Where do the seeds of thought that blossom into these very words come from?
The seeds
• I have a student in my class that is currently on a very unhealthy diet. I know that I cannot convince her to get off of it without replacing it in some way. […]
Apr
3
David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference Keynote 2006
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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 […]
Mar
29
Stone Soup
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, books I like, education, instructional design, learning, metaphor, networks, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
From the introduction of:
The Teaching Moment:a learning metaphor by Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer, Randy Swedburg
The Internet is saturated with distance education claims about learning environments, effective pedagogies, teaching modules, skill training techniques and community building models. Typing into Google: “online teaching training distance education” nets one 265,000 hits. Typically, efforts to deliver educational content and […]
Mar
26
crisis = danger + opportunity
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The first time I read that the Chinese word for ‘crisis’ included components or elements of the words ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’ was in James Lovelock’s ‘Gaia- A New Look at Life on Earth’ over 20 years ago, (see the wiki for Gaia Theory or a review of The Ages of Gaia). I have heard this […]
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