Educational Skill Building

It’s been a while since my last post — I’ve been wiki’ing a lot for work, but I feel this pull to post things on my blog as well. It’s so hard to juggle all of these balls. Reading, writing, reading blogs, writing for my blog — Hey, what about my family? [...]

del.icio.us for the last two weeks

Rethink(IP) : Controlling RSS Overload…Animal House Style
(tags: blog-reading)
Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers
(tags: blog-reading)
Nev n Dave » Top 10 tips for effective blog reading - part 1
efficiency for reading blogs… … (tags: blog-reading)
Telling the New Story | David Warlick
It is often said [...]

Making Decisions

Great story on All Things Considered yesterday on Big Decisions Best Made With Less Thought. The conclusion: Do your homework/research, sleep on it, then make your decision. Let your unconscious work.

2 cents on 1:1

David Warlick has really been asking so many thought provoking questions lately. Today’s question is, “Should we be going to a 1:1 arrangement in our schools?”
I’m in the process of trying to implement a Tablet PC 1:1 program in our 5th grade for next year. We’ve begun a conversation with my department, our Middle School [...]

del.icio.us links for the week

podsafe music network
The best music for podcasting … (tags: podcast music)
Vintage T-Shirts, Rock Posters, Concert T-Shirts, Concert Posters, Rock T-Shirts, Concert Shirt, Music Memorabilia, Concert Tees
What are we doing right, and what are we doing wrong? The archive is HUGE, and we have only begun to mine its depths; what [...]

Keeping Perspective

This past few weeks have been a rollercoaster ride. My department has been planing for next year’s faculty laptop fellows (using Tablets), and the possibility of tablet pc’s for a grade of students. Intense conversation and lots of discussions on the pros and cons of 1:1. I really want to do this, [...]

Blowing my mind…

So I’ve been spending a lot of time reading current education research on learning and teaching in the past few weeks. Trying to resolve where I stand on the educational spectrum of Progressive < --> Traditional classrooms —
Chris Lehmann’s comments on Old ideas are new again… are amazing. My feelings about students being [...]

del.icio.us links for the week…

Computer Science Teachers Association
(tags: learning computer-science)
Abject Learning: The network delivers the goods
Excellent examples of great wiki and blog uses in education — the guys posted a request for good examples and ended up flooded. … (tags: blogging wiki web2.0 learning)
LibriVox
podcasting book that are in the public domain … [...]

More from This I Believe

A Shared Moment of Trust: by Warren Christopher —Trust is what it’s all about — we have to do it, so why are we fighting it? Fear — It’s just scary to trust, but we have to. We have no choice in the matter.

The Metaphor for 21st Century Learning

From the Connectivism Blog:
In a learning sense, we have treated the learner and the content as one entity. We fill the learner with content and release them into the corporate world. As their content runs low, they attend evening/continuing education classes in order to “refill”. This model works fairly well when the half-life of knowledge [...]

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