Just read a post by Kevin Hodgson, a 6th grade teacher from Western Mass, who I have come to know over the past four years by my participation in the Connected Learning MOOC.
In his post Kevin included this Storify, showing a conversation from a Twitter Chat held in July 2016.…
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This week the 2016 version of the Connected Learning MOOC is starting. Participants are encouraged to create a visual introduction, and share it with others on various social media platforms.
I first connected with this group in 2013 and repeated in the past two years.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been missing Kim’s Friday Photos. I wondered where I would find light and shadows in my yard. The day is cool and crisp today but the sun is bright, peeking over the edge of hill across the river, illuminating the blossoms on our pear tree.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A Challenge On November 10th, 2014 I made a commitment to myself and invited others to join — teachers, students, bloggers. The commitment? Write 140 words each day — 140 words more or less — but write — blog — everyday. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...How do we help students develop the insight and initiative to be life-long, productive learners contributing to a better world? How do we develop student agency? We know that motivation comes from a desire to learn, a purpose, an authentic interest, and a belief that success is possible.…
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Every conference I’ve attended in the last year and a half has offered a session on Makerspaces. For the uninitiated, Makerspaces are places were community members can plan and create projects. Many of these spaces have an engineering design focus where participants can use tools to build creations.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I read through the Rhizo14 auto-ethnography this past week, in part to re-connect but also to see if it was moving anywhere (I won’t say moving forward as that is far too linear a concept for anything out of Rhizo14), but the document itself has been largely inactive since April or so, and I’ve not seen it emerge in any other space.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My friend Maha Bali writes so well, and she is prolific. I’ve thought about trying to keep up with her, but I can’t, so …
Still, she just wrote a wonderful post I ____ therefore I am human that challenges me to think about what it means to be human.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well, my first Make Cycle for #clmooc (write a how to) took longer than I anticipated, and now I have missed some of the other tasks, but this is one of the best things about MOOCs: only the organizers and facilitators have to stay on task, and even they can slip if they do it right.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So I’m closely reading Dillenbourg’s 1999 introduction to collaborative learning to see what guidance it may provide for studying cMOOCs such as Rhizo14 and CLMOOC. Dillenbourg’s first point about looking at collaborative learning from different scales strikes me as most helpful, but his second point about defining learning at best provides negative examples: what not to do.…
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