Hopefully, this post is the first of many in the coming year. After all, that is going to be one of my goals for 2014–write every day.
Professional Highlights of 2013
2013 was a year of change and growth, learning and stretching. …
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According to the literature on collaboration, connectivism, community-building, and adult and transformational learning theories, and guided by the philosophy of Freire (1970), who stressed that learning is a social act and that dialogue is the heart of education, ETMOOC was successful because it provided participants a community built on trust, challenge, self-direction, relevance, and passion.…
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The title for this post comes from one of my students, who whispered it in my ear as she hugged me on the way out the door today. I had a wonderful time introducing the idea of Genius Hour to my students. …
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I recently read the following comment by Ms. Edwards on Denise Krebs’ post Connected Learning, Thanks to My Neighbors as Denise was contemplating self-determined or rhizomatic learning:
…“I think you show part of self-determined learning when you say “I don’t know yet.”
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Khalil Gibran stencil (Photo credit: duncan)
I believe that whatever work we are given to do, or we choose to do – we do it with passion!
As a young child my beloved, eccentric grandmother, Marie Kelly, engaged me in the process of reading on our weekend dates.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...There’s an excellent learning event underway for NB educators in Fredericton this week. LearnEast 2.0.11, a high quality, low cost event attended by 200 keen teachers from around the province, has been organized by Bryan Facey (@Faceyman) and Jeff Whipple (@jeffwhipple) of District 18 and Jay Colpitts (@JayColpitts) of District 14. …
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