What’s involved in a Virtual Learning Communities? Conversations A central Hub for students a “Jumping off point” What makes a community?-Shared Values A virtual settlement? What does a successful community look like? -Communication-Welcoming-Gotta be two way How do you engage people in a learning community? What is trust? How do you build trust? Who do you trust? Is how we […]
David Warlick hosting: Introductions Conversation around getting pre-service teachers on board and changing teacher prep programs. Conversation on what SHOULD schools look like today: Schools, Teachers, Students Long Tail eduction (more on this later): A Doug Johnson thought. “The tools don’t change the skills.” Great conversation….look for the podcasts. Tools are accessible, a shift of thought needed. Conversation around assessment. […]
Check list: NECC Planner synced with Google Calendar synced with Palm Desktop synced with Palm: CHECK! Batteries for camera charged: CHECK! Laptop charged, polished up, and ready for heavy blogging: CHECK! Ready to be geeky for 5 day: CHECK! Looks like I’m ready to go…only problem is I’m still sitting at the airport where my red eye has been delayed […]
My last full day in Shanghai before flying out tomorrow to Seattle. It’s also the first day of summer vacation, so as I try and wind down from school and gear up for the projects ahead of me this summer I opened up my RSS reader to catch up on some reading. When I clicked on Warlick’s A Magnetic Field […]
Part of a comment left by Catherine Hiltz on Embedded Technology I think that the first step needs to involve creating a better understanding of educational paradigm shift. Perhaps this needs to be done by the provincial departments or at the division level. Without the philosophical background/understanding, I think that perhaps most educators will continue to flounder with tech. I […]
That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It I was hit this week with a TTWWADI right in my own teaching. It’s the end of the semester and so in TTWWADI fashion the students are creating web sites using Dreamweaver. The project includes everything we’ve been talking about this past semester. The only difference is the students have had a blog […]
My Superintendent: “I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.†This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a weeks. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment. However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we are trying […]
A Study on how laptops hinder learning made the front page of The International Educator newspaper that comes out monthly to overseas educators and schools. Jason Welker wrote a great article at U Tech Tips about it. First of all, to call this a “study†of the use of laptops inschools is inappropriate. A study with a sample size of […]
There is nothing like starting your week off with an e-mail from a teacher that simple says: “Moodle is not working…do you know why?†And then spending the next four days worried that you can’t fix it. It has been one of those weeks that I’ve relied on ‘just in time learning’ and my network of information to help me […]
I just left this comment on a message board with some pre-service teachers: What is more important to be adaptable or knowledgeable? (think dinosaurs) The word adaptable and adaptability have been floating around in my head for some time now and how they define what we are trying to do in the 21st century and why it is so hard […]