Author: Ben Wilkoff

Although 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) for this post explains this prerequisite for The Ripe Environment pretty well, I would like to further outline it for those of you who …

The “I know it when I see it” form of collaboration is no longer valid.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 contribution. We need to be able to assess collaboration, but we can’t do it the same way that we assess writing or proficiency. …

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 need to be heard will be undeniable. Students may pass notes or they may text message in their pockets. Teachers may point to a …

I 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 version of a multi-discipline course without any set curriculum or standards to give guidance or restrict us). “Well, it is earth day …

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 right now. Maybe after this quarter is over.”“Are you sure that it has to be due tomorrow. I really think that having the …

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 that out more fully in a separate post, but now I am at the TIE 2008 conference and I have some time …

Cores 2+3: Discuss-on: Begin Discovery Digital Portfolios Don’t forget about the little things that we have done (Write-on questions, ELT projects, Science and Social Studies blogging, etc.) Make it visual. Organize it. Reflect, Reflect, Reflect. (Why was this piece important or interesting?) Extensions: Finish your Digital Portfolio before you forget …