Today it snowed both inside and out as I used a “snowball” activity to introduce our wikispace literature discussions and appropriately Mother Nature gave us our first snowfall to set the stage.
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Loading...ECOO11 was a first for me for many reasons. It was my first time attending. It was my first time meeting people face to face that I had communicated with on twitter. AND, it was my first time a conference was so closely connected to my current professional PD that the conversations, and learnings are continuing and building as we continue to connect.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...I attended an inspiring and energetic presentation today in my school district titled “Show What You Know” The focus of the presentation was on how to provide students opportunities to both learn new information and show their knowledge in ways in addition to traditional reading and writing and how to properly assess these opportunities.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...On Wednesday I posted my first summary of the National Dropout Prevention Conference in this article.
Here are some quotes from people I heard.
“Shame of American Education is the drop-out problem.” Dr. Daniel Domenech
“1600 high schools in America responsible for majority of droputs in US.”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...When reading about 21st century learning I often come across the term “curation”. Beth Kanter defines content curation as ”the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked with your network” (be sure to read the whole post).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Up early this morning to work on my first assignment for my course which is outlining my ‘plan’ for my personal inquiry narrative. My final product for this project will include text, video and images so while I was working on my ‘plan’ I ended up creating two wordles using words I use to describe how I learn and words that I value as an educator…
Alana as Learner
Alana as Educator
While I tend to shy away from using labels or descriptors I am comfortable with the label of learner…
What words do you use to describe yourself as a learner?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It’s been six weeks since the unplug’d11 community said goodbye and we all headed back to our regular lives. But we were not the same people returning to our normal routine. Many of us had formed friendships with people we had never met before based on common passions, and we had experienced an openness with each other that we believed was rare in a classical PD venue.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...“Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance but if you want engagement, self direction works better.” Daniel Pink discusses the science of motivation in the 21st Century.
I am most of the way through Dan Pink’s most recent book called Drive. …
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