I loved Daniel Pink’s Drive and found it extremely relevant to many of problems confronting education (cf. some of my thoughts on it), so when +Chris Long suggested his newest book To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others for a #CAedchat summer read, I eagerly jumped right on it.…
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As I begin my summer reading binge, I’ve been trying to balance my consumption of pro-technology materials to include anything that offers alternative and/or critical views of the new (e.g. tech.-focused) directions in education. Much like I’ve argued with questions of the value of foreign language, I think it’s healthy to face and even embrace criticism, since it helps us to build a fuller understand of why we do certain things in certain ways through reflection, lest our ideas become dogmatic or myopic.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...While in graduate school, the topic of “active” Latin (i.e. using spoken Latin in various ways) rarely came up, if at all, so it was something of a surprise to find so many proponents of it at the high school level.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve had a great time participating in Twitter chats like “CAedchat“, with hashtag #caedchat, which happens Sunday evenings at 8pm PST and provides a forum for CA teachers to discuss current topics in education and pedagogy. As far as I know, there exists no current live chat devoted to Latin and the ancient world, and so capitalizing on the popularity of Twitter chats like this one (cf.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I finally picked up a Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, which I’ve had my eye on since I had the chance to work with one at the Boulder GAFE Summit last August (cf. my notes taken on a Chromebook). I’m a big fan of Google Apps and have transitioned the majority of my work into my Drive account, so it’s certainly a sensible purchase.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Thanks to a bit of extra free time over spring break, I finally had some time to read Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, since I’ve been lately thinking about the sometimes tenuous relationship that faculty have with professional development (PD. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been excited to share my thoughts on digital literacies for #ETMOOC, but I’ve had trouble thinking through the questions and framing them in my own experiences. It’s one thing — and a relatively easy one, at that — to restate the communis opinio on “digital literacy”, but it’s been quite another thing to write down my own take on what the term means to me.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Seymour Papert’s “Gears of My Childhood”, the foreword to his book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, serves as our first LCL activity to share. Briefly, Papert reflects back on his love of mechanical gears, viewing them as an adaptive model onto which he was able to overlay new and potentially difficult concepts in a familiar way.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Hammer Museum in Westwood hosted an exhibition titled Recreational Items from Unfortunate Events that ended today. It was centered around a collection of piñatas that were made by Sarah Bay Williams and based on a number of “unfortunate events”, and the piñatas were on display in the museum until today, when they were ceremoniously smashed apart. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Our second session assignments for the MIT Medial Labs Learning Creative Learning MOOC is to, in part, read through some of +Joichi Ito‘s blog posts on learning and respond with our own thoughts about what we found most surprising or interesting, and offer disagreements or questions, should we have any. …
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