PBL – Who IS in Charge? What Tools can Help?
What tools support a socio-constructivist approach to Project-based Learning? Assumptions We believe in kids. That’s why we are in this ‘business’ of education in the first place. Yet, much of what...
View Article‘Metaphoria’ and Digital Literacy
The Internet has changed the way we read. There is no doubt about it. Nicholas Carr, in his book What is the Internet Doing to Our Brains? The Shallows says, “Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of...
View ArticleJournal Writing – just another ‘worksheet’?
Writing has been known through the centuries as a tool for introspection (Britton, 1970). Forms of writing frequently used to enhance thinking include journal writing, autobiography, formal paper, or...
View ArticleWhy Should Students Collaborate?
Introduction So I just started taking the Connectivism and Connected Learning course – and I shall struggle to see how it differentiates itself as a ‘learning theory’. George Siemens is developing this...
View ArticleMetaphoria – the Pecha Kucha Version!
Alright, time for me to switch it up a bit. I know much of what I write here has been in rather a formal voice – some might say wordy or stodgy! 🙂 So I thought I’d pop in this small post which is...
View ArticleConnecting from the Heart
@dougpete, in a post called, An Idea that Just Keeps Growing describes a powerful use of Google Street View for ‘storytelling’. Megan Palevich (@mrspal) wrote A Walk Down Memory Lane which got me...
View ArticleEducation or Subjugation – Power & Empowerment in Schools
😉 (Note: ‘subjugation’!? Sorry, I just had to use that word. It rhymes!) I have been thinking, once again, about empowerment and what it means- both theoretically and practically. You will think about...
View Article“It’s not about the tool” – a naïve myth.
“It’s not about the tool – it’s about the learning.” – a naïve myth. I think I understand the intent of these kinds of statements. I believe it is a reaction that arises because some teachers and kids...
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