Connecting is the hardest thing to do in learning. If you don’t believe me, ask a student how many times they have received meaningful feedback today. Ask a teacher how many parents know exactly what goes on in their classes. I want to do this connection every single day and …
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I want to be able to depend upon all of the spaces that I choose to learn and work in. I want to know that they are there when I need them. Would it be too much to ask that the Learning Management System …
Image via Wikipedia I received an e-mail from an attendee of my educon presentation, The On Button: Instant and Always on collaboration. She was asking about one of the items in the presentation, in which I described adding an opml file (which was created by a Live Search OPML creator). …
One of the big revelations for me at educon was that creating things is the only way to sustain change. You cannot influence things to change. You have to create what you would like to see and make the change real for people. Concretely, I mean that every student, every …
1. Believe in what you are saying. 2. Own what you know. 3. Reference the hope that you feel many times. 4. Reach. 5. Be able to back up your reaching and hope with the network that brought us all together.
So, I have been the youngest person in the room ever since I finished college. This is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing in the fact that I can claim that I never taught without blogging. It is a curse in the fact that my life …
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All of the best collaborations I have been a part of have started off with a lot of questions. Not “how do we get it done” questions, but rather questions that yearn for something more, questions that require you to truly envision something that has never existed before and then …
Idea one: The purpose of school is not to churn out a finished product. Innovation doesn’t come from a place of completion. Idea two: If we mean 99 percent of the places that we call school, I would say there is no purpose. The purpose should be to be THE …
I am on my way to educon 2.1 right now, looking out into the night (don’t worry, I am using my phone in airplane mode). For some reason there are no clouds out there tonight, and all I can see are the bright lights of cities, clustered together and beautiful. …