The Dangers of Personalization

Sep 27

Watch this.  Okay, so that makes should make you think. Here's what I'm thinking. I wrote this piece for the Huffington Post last year and so you don't' have to read the whole thing here's where that post relates to the video above. Our current system and structure fights personalized learning with nearly every new policy and protocol it...

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Guitar Lesson 3

Sep 26

Guitar Lesson 3

    I'm not sure why I'm calling these lessons, since they really aren't anything more than me reflecting and updating my progress. I don't think it shows much on the video but I feel decent about my progress. Certainly it's not like the rapid and immediate feedback of a video game but I'm hearing songs in my head. I really have to...

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It’s not 1985

Sep 21

It’s not 1985

I'm going to be spending much more time this year focusing on supporting teachers with writing. While I don't have an extensive background in teaching writing outside of most classroom teachers, I am a writer. After a 1,000 blog posts, a few "traditionally" published articles, nearly 50,000 tweets, 100+ podcasts, 100+ videos and thousands of...

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Guitar Lesson 2

Sep 19

It's been 2 weeks since I started my learning project. I've got a few students who are already off and running. Cole is going to tackle Japanese, Dan wants to make sushi and Nicole wants to crochet to name three. With 21 students, I'm curious to see where their learning takes them.  As per usual, when I come up with an idea, I don't always have...

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The Learning Project

Sep 13

The Learning Project

    It's been said and discussed often here and many places that a real shift for educators is moving from teacher to learner. Not so much moving, we still need teachers, expertise matters but until we see ourselves as learners and intentionally show are students we can't be the educator our students need us to be.  Last week I began my ECMP...

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