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42: Fiddling with Style Sheets #LifeWideLearning16

42. What are the conversations you lurk around? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 11, 2016 I want to be able to code. I want to be able to start with an idea and make it happen by tapping out a few hundred lines in objective C or Javascript. I …

The Problem with YouTube Filtering and Whitelisting in Our Schools

There are some very important legal issues to sort out in the ways we filter the internet, and more specifically, YouTube within schools. I do not believe, however, that the legal implications are the right lens to show us the way forward with an academic purpose or strategy for supporting students in learning. …

40: The breath that you catch. #LifeWideLearning16

40. Do you believe in magic? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 9, 2016 I believe in Santa. That may be weird to say, but I mean it with 100% sincerity. I believe in the strange ritual of the chimney and the cookies and the presents. I do not believe …

39: Buzzfeed made me do it. #LifeWideLearning16

39. Top lessons you’ve learned from movies? #lifewidelearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 8, 2016 I’m pretty sure this question has been answered in a Buzzfeed article or two. It is so perfectly positioned to be a “listicle” that I feel as though I would be doing it an injustice …

38: Surrogates for Success #LifeWideLearning16

38. What’s on grade level? #lifewidelearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 8, 2016 Grade level is only useful because it so long has been correlated with a child’s age. Just as it is useful to know if a child is 5 years old rather than 10, it is somewhat useful to …

37: Get up and walk out. #LifeWideLearning16

37. What is the value of unpersonalized learning? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 6, 2016 The lecture will never die. In one form or another, there will always be someone who wants to stand up in front of others and spout off about what he/she knows. There will always be …

36: The Tidy Bow at the End of the Episode. #LifeWideLearning16

36. What TV family was yours most like growing up? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 5, 2016 I was the Jonathan Taylor Thomas of my family. The middle child, slightly brainy, who moves down into the basement as soon as he could in order to avoid the older and …

34: Five types of collaboration gone bad. #LifeWideLearning16

34. When does collaboration go too far? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 3, 2016 Groupthink: When you want to please the others in the group more than you want to find the best solution. Decision by Committee: Finding consensus without ever finding buy-in. Starting Over, Again: Collaborating on the …