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EduCon Reflections

EduCon Reflections

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I am attending EduCon 2.2 and just getting ready to start the final day.  Yesterday I had the privilege to facilitate a conversation with Danja Mahoney and Michael Springer, and chat with some of the smartest most thoughtful educators around. Our topic was Subversive PD: Creating a culture of collaboration to bring educators into the 21st century.  Our focus was looking for strategies that work, in the absence of administrative and teacher support and/or awareness, to foster professional growth. Are…

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Do You Debate?

Do You Debate?

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I believe that critical thinking, analysis, and the ability to pull ideas together are essential to learning. However it has been my experience that in the current context of content based testing, time for complex analytical discussions, examination of multiple perspectives and allowing time for students to draw their own conclusions has been limited. I was wondering if its absence in the classroom had been replaced with time outside the classroom.  In my high school and college days debate clubs…

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Is being knowledgeable and being educated the same thing?

Is being knowledgeable and being educated the same thing?

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I have been doing a lot of reading in the past year, or so, on education, learning, schools and teaching.  I believe I am on the verge of a paradigm shift in my thinking.  The constructivist in me tells me this is part of the normal learning process that comes about from gathering new information and analyzing it from different points of view.  You see the conflicts with your old knowledge structures and you need to rebuild them to accommodate…

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On My Soap Box – Rational Discussions

On My Soap Box – Rational Discussions

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I took the kids to get Halloween costumes yesterday and while waiting online at the mall food court, I could not help but over hear a conversation.   The topic debated is not important but one of the statements has caused me to get on my soap box. “Anyone who thinks that way is an a——!” Why do we attack people with whom we do not agree? What happened to discussing ideas and trying to see the other point or points…

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Technology Survey Request

Technology Survey Request

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I received this information in a comment on another post. Passing it along. Dear Madam: I’m a senior in high school in the United States and I am doing a project about technology use in other countries. I am trying learn about the types of technology that have had the greatest impact on our world as a whole, over the last 10 years, instead of just seeing how technology plays a role in the United States. I am hoping that…

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Just Keep Swimming

Just Keep Swimming

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In the last few weeks I have been trying to drum up business. Hoping to get teachers to work with new tools in the classroom, always a challenge as the year draws to a close. Anyway… I have been hearing more and more of the following lately. Why should I learn this tool, won’t there just be another one? What is ONE I should be using. There are too many tools what is the best one? I sympathize. I try…

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The People I Learn With

The People I Learn With

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I had a great time this weekend meeting and learning with and from some terrific people. I meet with the people in my MassCUE network, and some of the people who make up my twitter network at the New England Tweet up. I met people connected to a virtual network and those that network face to face. I met people not associated with any of my networks. I learned from them all. There has been some chatter lately about the…

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