June 2008
12 posts published in June 2008.
- The Ripe Environment for Authentic Learning: TIE 2008The process of creating a Ripe Environment for Authentic Learning is one that must be experienced rather than explained, so it is my most sincere…
- The Ripe Environment: The Most Powerful LearningAlthough the podcast (which was somehow not recorded because I had the device set for line-in rather than mic… I am quite mad about it actually)…
- The Ripe Environment: The MarkersThe “I know it when I see it” form of collaboration is no longer valid. We need new ways to tell if learning is happening through group…
- The Ripe Environment: Interdependent vs. Independent QuestionersFor as long back as I can remember we have squashed the questions that only help out the individual and focusing only upon the questions that…
- The Ripe Environment: Connecting more than two dots.There is a severe lack of time in the air. It pervaides every conversation I hear on many days: “No, I don’t have time for that collaboration…
- The Ripe Environment: Collaboration as InstinctI sat at the over-long table, as I always do on Mondays and thought about the next time I would meet my students for Extended Learning Time (our…
- The Ripe Environment: Change cannot be InstitutionalizedWell, when I first started blogging about The Ripe Environment, I didn’t know that I was being edupunk, but now that I have read the powerful…
- The Ripe Environment: Backchannels exist.Whether we provide students or teachers with a backchannel, one will form. So long as there is more than one voice in a learning environment, the…
- Helping myself out… by asking for help.So I haven’t blogged for a little while because of all of the work I have been doing for our district’s online school, eDCSD. I intend to blog…