Listening to what Learners Want: Autonomy, Mastery and Connection

I absolutely love the work of Amy Burvall and the Theory of Knowledge course. I pulled two of my favorite excerpts from the Student Voices video (http://youtu.be/SU72SpObYKY). Listening to learners is so essential, especially when they are saying things like this.…

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Transformational Experiences don’t have to be Rare

Based upon the great work and reflection of Christina Hendricks (http://youtu.be/i14BNHBv404), I wanted to think through just how easily we might create transformational experiences for one another. If it only requires lasting connection with others, then perhaps we only lack the readiness for transformational change.…

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Tellagami – Share a Short Story, Fact or PSA

Tellagami came across my radar again last week. And the timing was right. I had a few minutes to download the app on our iPod Touches and within a minute I had created an avatar that appeared to be standing in Abbot School computer lab, dealing with printing issues.…

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Natural Ways We Fit Together

I don’t want to change the org chart or the ways in which we define roles and responsibilities, but rather the idea that there is a single way that we can fit our roles together.

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Conversations are Meta-data (and why you should care)

I am engaged by this idea that conversations could be considered metadata and could be used to drive instruction or differentiation. How would that work in your learning environment?

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Winston Churchill and Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0 tools are unreliable at best and unavailable at worst. They don’t work the way they did last week because of their constant feature updates. They don’t allow for us to own many of the things we create either. They are, in fact, the worst tools for collaboration that exist, except for everything else that we have tried.…

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Got a Minute? Connected Learning

In a follow up comment to my blog post, Open Movement, didn’t know it“, I replied to Christina Hendricks comment. “Thank you Christina, “Thanks for your comments. You keep me writing. It’s wierd, it only takes one comment and I’m inspired.”

Is that true for you too??…

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The Anti-Change Mentality

What should you do with those who are specifically anti-change, who will use false-negatives in order to try and stop movement on what you are trying to do? How should you go about shifting the conversation from miniature failures to the broader call for successful change?…

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