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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Loading...Below is an archive of a Connected Learning #clmoc Twitter chat that took place last week. It was created by Kevin Hodgson, a middle school teacher from Massachusetts.
You can find this and other ideas submitted by Kevin and #clmooc members in this G+ community and this Facebook community.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I started hosting Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences in Chicago in May, 1994, as part of a strategy intended to draw area volunteer-based tutoring, mentoring and learning programs and supporters together to learn from each other and as part of a strategy to increase public awareness of tutor/mentor programs all over the Chicago region, so that more would have the talent and dollars needed to sustain their work and constantly improve.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Note: This post is the first in a series on The Agile Schools Manifesto that I introduced in an earlier post.
I do love my gadgets and tools. I rarely leave my local bike shop without another freewheel remover or cone wrench, and I’m always up for a conversation about which apps you are using.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Tuesday I posted this article, filled with graphics inspired by fiends I’ve met in the Making Learning Connected MOOC. This morning I was encouraged to see this post, by Terry Elliott.
Terry added a range of comments to my first graphic.…
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I’ve written about MOOCs in the past, and I’m taking part in the 2015 Making Learning Connected MOOC right now. Participants are encouraged to “make” digital images, trying out new tools. Learning from others is part of the fundamental goal of MOOCs like this.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We can cut off its head, fill its mouth with garlic, and drive a stake through its body, but we apparently can’t kill a well-designed, engaging, dynamic learning experience and the community of learning it spawns. Nor would we want to.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We may have a new corollary to one of the most famous lines from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life (“Teacher says, ‘Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.’”): Every time #etmooc is mentioned, a learner gets new learning wings.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I arrived home from #BIT14 at 2:30 Saturday morning and found this on my kitchen table:
It made me think a lot about my experience at #BIT14. I have a lot to think and say about my learning at the conference, but I think I’m going to save most of the “how to” and “why” that I picked up for another post and this one will focus more on one of the overriding messages, which is summed up in this banner that my daughter and each of the members of her Atom hockey team received at practice on Friday night.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So #ccourses this week has asked the question why do I teach? And the answer is: Do I still teach? I am an instructional designer now rather than a face to face classroom educator. And I’ve never taught at a university, though I do teach adults.…
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