Learning through interactions

Learning through interactions

First from Clarence and then from Will a link to this CNET article. What is so interesting is to see what it is in the article that sticks out to people. Clarence writes: He advocates many of the things that we often talk about in the edublogosphere in response to changes needed in education. Will writes: To me, this is […]

Knowing Knowledge Highlights 21-30

Knowing Knowledge Highlights 21-30

OK, my second round of highlights from George Siemens’ new book Knowing Knowledge. You can find the first round here. What skills and processes do we need to work with soft knowledge? We have spent our history with hard/codified knowledge as a product. We now need to learn to work with soft knowledge as a process.-p 22 We can no […]

Help me to understand

Help me to understand

OK so this may sound really stupid to a lot of you but…. What is the difference between us telling a student to use a fake name on their blog or on the web and a 13 year old pretending to be 18 on myspace? We teach them to be safe on the web, to hide their identity to basically […]

Looking into the eyes of our students

Looking into the eyes of our students

Friday was a half day at school. A little extended weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Our High School took part in a couple different sessions. One of those sessions was by me giving a talk on “The Flat World”. I would have titled it “Your World” but the title doesn’t really matter. I had 20 minutes with every 9-12th grader […]

Where'd Bloglines go?

Where'd Bloglines go?

Last Friday my feedburner stats reported a 120 reader drop! What did I say?Seems like Bloglines is having some issues, or is it just me? I checked it myself and sure enough it’s not updating the feed since Friday. When I look at it through feedburner the new postings are there, so feedburner seems to be working. Anybody else experiencing […]

Learning from the kids

Learning from the kids

I came home tonight looking forward to going through my aggregator and getting some other stuff online done. But I made the mistake of stopping by some of the online projects going on around the school. Needless to say my learning tonight came from a bunch of middle school students. I’ve spent the last two hours shaking my head. Why […]

Knowing Knowledge Highlights 1-20

Knowing Knowledge Highlights 1-20

It just so happens my pre-bedtime blog run coincides with Clarence Fisher’s pre-breakfast blog run, once in awhile we catch each other on Skype for a little around the world chat. About a week ago or so Clarence mentioned George Siemens’ new book Knowing Knowledge, which can be downloaded for free from the website. I downloaded it started reading is. […]

92 year old blogger

92 year old blogger

From Boing Boing: Meet a 92-year-old blogger Is 92-year-old Donald Crowdis (former host of the Candadian TV program The Nature of Things) the world’s oldest blogger? Even if he isn’t his blog is terrific. He’s funny and astute. Here’s an excerpt from a recent entry he wrote on cannibalism. Give his blog a read. If he can do it…why can’t […]

Edublog call to action

Edublog call to action

Tom Hoffman has a call to action on his blog Tuttle SVC. Here you go Tom! Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]