Our discussion of perfect learning environments has stayed with me. It keeps eating away at my free moments. I will be taking care of my child, holding her, or singing to her, and I will have a brainstorm about what learning should be like. The majority of these brainstorms this …
When I was reading through all of your comments and suggestions in your end-of-semester reflections, I started to realize one thing: you wanted more control over what you were learning. Most of you said that you thought the blogs were a big help with your writing and that they allowed …
The war over Journey is highly energized by the antagonistic stance that I have toward all bad music. The fact that there truly is nothing I can say to prove an opinion, makes doing so all the harder. I don’t believe that it is my fault that I hate Journey. …
The following is an essay written as an example for my Core 4 students. Their essays, as well as mine, is part of a multi-cultural novel unit and persuasion unit focused on the concept of change. My essay is a work in progress, and should be treated as such. Identity …
A lot of edubloggers are focusing on what School 2.0 should look like. I really like the idea of looking ahead (and hopefully planning ahead) for the inevitable progression of modern education. But the more that I think about what a technologically and pedagogically progressive school should look like, I …
Although this post isn’t in direct response to Hockey90’s Thinking About Thought, I believe it accents my post quite well, so I suggest you read it too. The concept of critical mass has always been intriguing to me, but until recently I never saw the application to thought, teaching, or …
This video calls into question what we are willing to accept as reality. If we are willing to accept unreal beauty as something that we should strive for, what else will we accept? Do we have unreal expectations about money, politics, and love? It is my position that entertainment is …
There is nothing so sinister as ignoring the wealth of voices around us: the ones that could make us laugh if we only knew the language, the ones that could make us think if we only had the time, and the ones that could make us learn if we only …
Disclaimer: The following is a work in progress. I am writing an essay with/for my Core 3 students about the following question: Should students have grades? The first six letters hold an inordinate amount of power, and frankly, it makes me sick. The A’s, B’s and C’s have too long …
This is truly fantastic. I can’t imagine linking every single word. The one question that I think of after reading this, is why don’t we link more words to dictionaries? Why don’t we have the context for more of our concepts? I really think that looking for the answers behind …