Dr Alec Couros is presenting at The PLE Conference 2012 in Melbourne this week. Here’s how I know..his call out for responses floated past in my twitter stream last week.
@courosa, as a teacher, learner and social networker I’m drawn to respond to your question “Why do (social) networks matter in teaching and learning?…
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Comet McNaught wow'd observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 2007. (Image by chrs_snll on flickr CC)
We often hear about “evidence-based teaching and learning.” In fact, it’s a pillar of the approach to course development and transformation that we follow in the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So happy I found #PBLWORLD to follow this week on Twitter. Super thankful to everyone who takes the time to send out their tweets, pictures, blogposts, and much more, and for the technology that opens up our worlds.
I read Suzie Boss’s tweet today of a comment from Sam Seidel, keynote speaker at PBLWorld.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Next year the Year 7s at our school will be bringing their iPads to school. This is part of the plan to answer the Big Question presented to our teachers at the end of 2011 –
…How does Vermont Secondary College better prepare its student and teachers to meet the challenges of the 21st Century?
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...[I wrote this review of situated learning, also known as situated cognition, in 2009 for the internal communications discussion board we use in the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative. I go back to it often enough, mostly to find the reference for the amazing paper by James Paul Gee, that I’m reposting here.]…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Thank you PLN, I could never figure out how much support I could get. Yes, the power of love when we are part of a community.
Reflecting upon things that go well in the classroom is always rewarding, but what happens when suddenly everything goes unexpectedly wrong?…
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The students researched and created Mexican dishes and partook in the Mexican tradition of breaking the Pinata.
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1) Challenge one: what is your “teaching is like____ ” metaphor?
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As cliche as it sounds and inaccurate as it feels in many a difficult moment, we can never out-give kids, never. I don’t regret any second of time I’ve spent over the past 11 years trying to help kids learn stuff.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. – Carl Jung What does it mean to be? For me, being is about understanding who … Continue reading …
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