Ramblings from NECC 2009

I had the good fortune of spending the last week with some really smart people and sit in on a few great sessions. During this time I was asked a few times if I was enjoying this or learning. The answer to both was yes. However, I could likely have been asked the same quesitons [...]

Fun with Twitter: Lesson #31

Here’s just another really silly, useless but somewhat fascinating use of twitter. Not necessarily any educational value but pure fun.

 

Step one: Find someone at a sporting or other large event.

 

 

 

Step Two: Offer a challenge:

 

  

Step Three: Watch and wait:

 

 

Step Four: End with laughter, joy and acknowledgement of a well completed task.

 

 

 

 

 

Student Involved Assessment

Reposted from the Tech & Learning blog

The concept of student involved assessment is hard to deny as a powerful learning practice. Students taking care of their own learning and being able to use meta-cognition to dissect understanding and progress and seek ideas and support to learn more. The work of Rick Stiggins and others provides [...]

How the book destroyed Community

I recently attended a session by Rory McGreal at the Tlt Summit. Rory was discussing how video games are often considered to be making us more isolated and how they are destroying students ability to communicate. Rory points to the book as the real culprit.

Before the printed book, people had to flock to a select [...]

The Continuing Saga

I had one of the strangest events of my professional career on Tuesday night. Coming back from 10 days in Europe I checked my calender to see I was schedule to speak at a Parent night at a high school in a neigbouring district.  I remember being asked a few months early about speaking as [...]

 
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