Core 1: What is the one word that you are going to remember next year from Unit 10 (including your own words and everyone else’s)? Finish Unit 10 activities and study for quiz tomorrow. Write-On: What do you think a flat classroom is? Can we use the internet to create …
Cores 1-4: Weekly Authentic Self-Assessment and Reflection You should fill this out correctly and honestly, leaving nothing for me to question in my grading. Cores 1: Take a look at all of the Google Video Challenge posts. Take a look at my vision of writing without the dependency on paper …
Paper is: • Static. • Linear. • Finite. • Singular. Digital Writing is: • Dynamic. • Multi-dimensional. • Infinite. • Pluralistic. With these things in mind, all writing should be: • Infinitely editable • Inherently clickable • Continually discussed • Focused on revisions and the history of revisions. Dave Cormier …
Cores 1-4: Revisit Personal Curriculum. Core 1: Write-On: Do words influence our concept of Utopia or does our concept of Utopia influence our words? Utopian Poetry Analysis. Core 2: Reflect-On: How difficult was it to incorporate other people’s ideas in your own frame? Elite 8 Tournament and Ultimate winner. What …
Core 1: Go over Vocab homework. Play Vocab basketball. Find words to substitute for the five words you crossed off. Wordie Double-Tonged Dictionary Pseudodictionary Reverse Dictionary Core 2: Discuss-on: What can 10 words do that 10,000 cannot? What is framing a debate? What would have been the great debate about …
This podcast was brought about because of the classroom discussion that my eighth graders had about what a terrible affect Myspace can have on their lives. I wanted to start brainstorming a school-sponsored space that we could substitute for Myspace that would be an extension of the classroom. This space …
Core 1: Close to 50 people have downloaded your two conversations on Perfect Learning Environments and the Internet as Utopia, and about 100 more have listened to them online. Not many students have the kind of audience that you do. Discuss-On: How would recording each class for a worldwide audience …
Cores 1-4: Read the Google Video Challenge See the new type of Nomination on del.icio.us Get comments from Mr. Wilkoff on del.icio.us Trade Comments Write your Weekly Authentic for Sem2_Week7 and submit to del.icio.us.
Getting a service un-banned is much harder than getting it banned. Whether it is a book, a substance, or a website, once something has been declared undesirable, it is nearly impossible to see it as wholesome again. It has now something to be guarded against, something to be feared. It …
This was a discussion I had with my 8th graders about how the Internet could be used as a vehicle for creating a utopia in their everyday lives. I was truly surprised and intrigued by some of their responses. Many of the students believe that the internet is a “0.” …