Year: 2013

This is my mini-Ode to schools. I was so happy to have the opportunity to teach and learn within a school recently, that I thought I would talk about it here and ask if you feel lucky too.

Why do you feel lucky to be within a school?

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I was flabbergasted to learn that one of my favorite current collaborators and I had shared a conversation four years ago. Neither of us recognized the opportunity that serendipity was presenting to us, and yet we got a second chance to learn from one another. Because we both have our own "Long Tail Learning", we were able to recognize our mutual interest and capitalize on it.

Original Blog Post: http://34.136.86.195.nip.io/blog/2009/01/24/the-educon-21-opening-panel/

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Collaborations don’t last forever. But, if you chronicle them as they are happening and if you talk about what you are learning, the conversations that are built upon them will never die. Just become The Fellowship of the Ning is going to stop making new videos, it doesn’t mean that their over 600 videos will somehow disappear. We should all be trying to create Learning Time Capsules out of our daily reflections so that we can continue the community even after we have moved on to other projects.

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I love the way in which Sheri Edwards speaks about teaching and learning. Her poetry is wonderful and deserves to be thought through. The challenge that I took from her latest vlog is that she would like to whisper with fellow teachers and leaders in order to change education. I’m game, are you?

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Original Video from Sheri Edwards: http://youtu.be/fQWgmWipSSk

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Our communities exist and grow based upon their use, but we should join and leave those communities at will. We should be a part of them rather than own them. We should allow things to go fallow and then pick them up again and get excited. Communities do not die so long as one person takes it upon themselves to carry the banner and continue on.

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