I am a Responsive Classroom teacher. Sometimes that gets the reputation of being “touchy-feely”. However, anyone who knows me would not describe me or my teaching that way. I have high expectations for student behavior and work that coincides with one of the core principles of RC: the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.…
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Loading...So Ioanna from DNLE posted this up for discussion in the DNLE alumni site so I thought I’d share. As always Ioanna has posted a question to get us thinking. http://dnle.stanford.edu/content/future-learning-educational-technology and http://envisioningtech.com/envisioning-the-future-of-education.png for the original source of the graphic.…
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I recently commented on a post by Jeannine St. Amand on Connected Learning and What we share in the world and I feel the need to post my reply here and expand:
We cannot just skim along, we need to go back, reread, check on comments.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Tonight I attended a great session with ETMOOC on educational leaders and social media. A great thought I took away was developing a digital growth plan. Jumping into something new with both feet is great, but you have to be able to stay afloat.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today’s session was presented by George Couros. I missed the first part as I was out of the office but the live notes below are from what I did catch in the second half of the session.
For full disclosure, I do not work within a school or educational setting, so I find that it was more difficult for me to connect with the information.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I recently returned to twitter after not using it for a few years. On returning I was amazed by the changes I found and was surprised by the mass of info I was shown by the people I am following. I read a lot in the first weeks and was shocked at the amount of new material I was reading.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In my last post I mentioned that I used Google Docs for the first time ever with my students to create an on-line survey. This may sound like an easy task, and in the end it was, but for my students and I, getting there was not so easy.…
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On January 27, 2013 Lynda Hall wrote in her blog The De-tech-tive 4 Teachers the following:
“For well over a year now, my professional goal has been to expand my interaction with the global teaching community. As you can well imagine, the benefits of developing a supportive and passionate Professional Learning Network (PLN) have been very inspiring and thought-provoking. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The MOOC goes to high school — from blogs.edweek.org by Lisa Duty (@lisaduty1 )
Excerpt:
Last summer when Reynoldsburg City Schools connected with Udacity, the highly acclaimed provider of free university-level education, it envisioned a new model for learning with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that would come to life during, not after, high school.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is my introduction for #etmooc, the tribe i joined for some professional and personal development. The Internet is a tool that helps me to create meaning in my life by seeking out opportunities to make connections and change. For example, Seth Godin is a thought leader and innovator in what he describes as our post-industrial connection economy. …
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