Sometime last fall I stumbled onto design thinking (DT) and was immediately drawn to its grounding in working with and for people. DT, to put it simply, is a process (or, if you prefer, the DT “mindset”) that can be summed up as “people-centered problem solving with a bias toward action.”…
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I believe in magic. I believe in the power of positive thinking, positive words, and positive feedback. As a high school English teacher, this has served me well to build long-term relationships with my kids. Maintaining positive interactions with my kids has been a truism of my days, in this way the cycle of validation and feedback for who they are – as I see them to be – must be present in my communications with them, always.…
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| Sally Field’s “You like me! Right now!” Oscar acceptance speech |
One of the most important aspects of being part of a peer to peer learning environment such as ds106 is engaging in the art of giving, receiving and eliciting critical feedback.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...According to the ACSD, feedback is not necessarily what you think it is. Confused? Try this: There are Seven Keys to Effective Feedback:
Based on the aforementioned article, “Technology is one powerful tool—part of the power of computer-assisted learning is unlimited, timely feedback and opportunities to use it.”…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I was out to dinner this evening with a friend when she asked how often I wrote in my blog. She knows how often I talk about blog posts I have ‘half written’ and I think she expected me to say more often.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I was introduced to the idea of the Six Word Story during the digital storytelling topic in #ETMOOC. For those who do not know, there is a legend that Ernest Hemingway once composed a six word story in order to win a bet.…
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Single Slice Photo by Pernilla Rydmark under a CC license
As we each carve out our slice of etmooc, I know that I am just nibbling on a slice, not eating the whole pie (nod to Darren Kuropatwa’s vlog about moocs.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This is a post intended to cheerlead. To express appreciation for the example being sdet by the MOOC organisers, and to talk about how that example, in part, has a large determining influence on the MOOC experience. I apologise in advance for any gushing, typos, formatting weirdness, or weirdly wired thoughts.…
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