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Jul
20
Canadians… this is scary!
Category: education, instructional design, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | 
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Bill C-61 is a copyright law that is truly scary to anyone that shares what they teach online.
The following is an e-mail I received from Kris at http://wanderingink.net She is 16 years old. Bold font is mine, for those that only want to skim…
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Fair Copyright Montreal (a branch of the same […]
Jun
27
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMMMM…
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, education, leadership, metaphor, pairadimes, presentation, student leadership, technology | Leave a Comment
This blog has a subtitle: Reflections on Education, Technology and Learning
My other less-frequently used blog, ‘Practic-All’, is subtitled, Pragmatic tools and ideas for the classroom. Recently I started using this other blog to provide a digital addition to my Principal’s weekly e-mail update. I did 9 of these to end the year off. I called […]
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
31
Most Influential
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | Leave a 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
16
Opportunities, Access & Obstacles
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, connecting online, education, instructional design, leadership, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
Opportunities
“You know the No. 1 complaint about school is that it’s boring because the traditional way it’s taught relies on passive learning,” Mr. Noguera said. “It’s not interactive enough.”
Pedro Noguera (NYT)
I just watched David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference […]
May
9
Start with Innovative Schools…
Category: Learning Conversations, books I like, education, leadership, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, restructuring | Leave a Comment
“How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?”
That was the question that US Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama asked on LinkedIn. A day later I posted response #1421. Here it is:
The definition for ‘Entrepreneur’ came from Google using ‘define: entrepreneur’, but I did not link to it since the link […]
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
24
Start Your Own Blog
Category: Pro-D, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | Leave a Comment
Here is the write-up for the 2 hour Professional Development seminar that I ran today for 9 dedicated teachers who showed up on a sunny Saturday, after a full day of Pro-D on Friday.
Start Your Own Blog
A practical session that will introduce you to blogging.
You will see how others use their blogs and you […]
Apr
10
“The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids”
Category: Pedegogy, learning, networks, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse Power of Praise.
A Feature in the The New York Times, By Po Bronson.
Thanks to Kris from Wandering Ink who sent me this link.
I will let the article speak for itself:
Dweck sent four female research assistants into New York fifth-grade classrooms. The researchers would take […]
Apr
6
Acceptance of Mediocrity, Web 2-point-oh-oh!
Category: books I like, pairadimes, technology | Leave a Comment
{I was just chatting on-line with a past student, telling her that I was having difficulty writing this post. As it turns out, she wrote a similar post just hours ago. Rather than continuing my tedious process of writing, deleting and re-writing a mediocre introduction, I thought I would start, and finish, with her eloquent […]
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