A few weeks ago our school received a cart of 30 Chromebooks. I was keen to get started, even though I have never used Google Drive, and very few Web 2.0 tools. I new we would be getting an inservice eventually, but I thought I’d bring a few into my class and see what happened.…
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The title for this post comes from one of my students, who whispered it in my ear as she hugged me on the way out the door today. I had a wonderful time introducing the idea of Genius Hour to my students.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I am very excited to be introducing my students to Genius Hour this week! We are already participating in a special project called Entrepreneurial Adventure, run through the Learning Partnership. Because not all children were expressing interest in creating their own ventures, and I know that some ventures will need more and others less time to manage, I wanted something I could run parallel to the EA program.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Our recent #ETMOOC topic of Digital Storytelling has me thinking not only about telling digital stories, but also reading them. My husband bought me my first iphone for Mother’s Day two years ago. The think I loved most about it, was my ability to read books on it.…
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So, this was a week of tech trips, troubles and trials. It began when the connector screws came off my laptop, so I couldn’t project anything onto my smartboard. Not a big deal to fix, except our school’s tech-guy can’t come until next week at the earliest.…
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Today, like so many other days recently, I missed the sense of proportion I used to have.…
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The View from the Great Wall of China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fukagawa/110114242/
http://juliebalen.weebly.com/2/post/2013/01/musing-out-loud-reading-between-rhizomic-roots.html
I very much enjoyed the above post by Julie Balen on rhizomic learning, connections, complexity. She concludes her post with the following question:
Share you thoughts about connected learning and where it might take us, and what our responses might be when something gets in our way.
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Over the years I have been variously complimented for the level of differentiation/ freedom/choice in my classroom, or condemned for the chaos, lack of structure, and uncertainty that seems to rule. Often on the same day, sometimes by the same people.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dave Cormier’s Presentation this week reminded me of a wonderful game I like to play with my students. I call it the Chaos Game, but technically it is called Shirpinski’s Triange. If you haven’t done it before it is great fun, and a good party trick (well, I guess that depends on who you party with!).…
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The Most Complicated PowerPoint Slide Ever
http://www.presentationmagazine.com/most-complicated-slid-2517.htm
It was a delight to participate in tonight’s Blackboard discussion for ETMOOC “Rhizomic Learning: Trying to fit Rhizomes, MOOCs, and Complexity into One Talk” facilitated by Dave Cormier.
Dave proposes a powerful answer to his question “What is learning for?” when he suggests that learning is preparing for uncertainty.…
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