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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 […]
Aug
9
hidden pain
Category: Learning Conversations, compassion, education, pairadimes, reflection | 7 Comments
I’m back from a wonderful holiday… in 12 days we visited my sister and family in L.A., and went to San Diego where we visited the Wild Animal Park, Zoo, and SeaWorld (twice). We also went to Disney/California Adventure for 3 days. My kids had a fantastic time, and I found more joy in their […]
Jun
7
And finally, I will leave you with this:
Category: Learning Conversations, connecting online, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
This is the end of my last post on our class Ning network for Planning 10 this term. The first link isn’t really appropriate but my students get my sense of humour by now, and we just finished talking about sex-ed, so I put it in anyway. For reasons I cannot express in this venue […]
Jun
7
Instantaneous
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, digital native, education, instructional design, learning, networks, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
Kim Cofino writes on Twitter:
Join us in our uStream session: http://ustream.tv/channel/isb-edu-stream Conversations about the Future of Learning in a Networked World.
I click the link to uStream and find that 12 others have also joined her meeting, later there were 17 of us.
Vance Stevens is talking and a participant in the meeting links to the slide […]
May
5
Reflections: Stirring in the crock pot
Category: blogging, books I like, connecting online, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 1 Comment
Spring brings new beginnings just as a school year comes to an end. As a teacher it is difficult not to be reflective in June.
Special moments remembered, peppered lightly with what could have been, and never transpired. The nostalgia seems to loom more so this year as I contemplate a move after my nine-year […]
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
30
Wikis in the classroom: a reflection.
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 2 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
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
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
19
WOW: Bringing Science Alive! (wiki)
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, connecting online, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | Leave a Comment
What happens when you:
Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
I recently started a wiki space for my Grade 8 Science classes called Science Alive!
The concept is to let students choose their own topic to explore, and then demonstrate learning on all the levels […]
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