Introduction I have just spent my 2nd of 3 days with Bruce Wellman of Mira Via in a Pro-D session tittled Developing & Facilitating Collaborative Groups. The first session had a focus on facilitating groups and my personal learning focus centered around two main ideas: 1. Being deliberate about when we use Discussion and when […]
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ASK [for help] and Ye Shall Receive, SEEK [the right questions] and Ye Shall Find [the right answers].
On Tuesday I got to hear Chris Kennedy speak. He is a principal, teacher and somewhat of an unofficial district technology guru. His main message: “It isn’t about the Technology!” Good teaching practice transcends the use of technology. What technology can do is: create new ways to use and improve your skills as a teacher; […]
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Online Connectivism Conference: Healthy Discord
I have been participating in this on-line conference for the last few days (or rather nights!) This is the introduction to the conference that convinced me to participate: “The evolution of teaching and learning is accelerated with technology. After several decades of duplicating classroom functionality with technology, new opportunities now exist to alter the spaces […]
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School 2.0 Participant’s Manifesto
When I enter our learning space I will be prepared to learn, to participate, to engage, to discover, to play, to inquire, to create. We are all different. Our opinions are different. We all learn differently. Our learning will be differentiated. Respect makes all the difference. We are not all equal, but we must all […]
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Learning Conversations
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 […]
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Articulate Your Thinking… (an e-mail correspondence)
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. – – – – – From:David Sent:May 10, 2004 9:55 PM […]
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Numeracy & Problem Solving: Process Producibles
Math Professional Development day with Peter Liljedahl: Two sessions 1. Exploring Producibles: Getting the Genie Back in the Bottle. 2. Assessing Numeracy: How do you Photograph the Wind? One of my goals for this year is to make Professional Development Days more useful. Too often I gather great information from a session and then ‘file’ […]
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Sharing and Engaging: Web 2-point-0h-Yeah!
An antithesis to my last post, “Acceptance of Mediocrity, Web 2-point-oh-oh!” Well, actually more of an ‘alternate spin’ on web2.0 than an ‘antithesis’. I must admit to seeing an element of accepting mediocrity in some students that concerns me. An example of this is the quality of work that students believe is satisfactory to hand […]
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The digital native, the digital naive, and the digital divide.
I haven’t written too many quotable quotes in my day… but I like this one: I come from the Batman era, adding items to my utility belt while students today are the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating technology into their lives. I just wish it was true! The fact is that my utility belt is […]
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Blog Rules – Respect, Inclusion, Learning and Safety
Original title: Blog Rules – Just the basics, 4 rules based on Respect, Inclusion, Learning and Safety In May of ’06 I taught a 10 day course on Leonardo Da Vinci, as part of our yearly Renaissance Fair. I did this in a brand new way. I started the project off by having students create […]
