How technology is reshaping learning
This course has brought to light many ways teaching and learning can/are and even should take place in this modern era defined primarily by the interconnectivity provided by the web. I think the core...
87. The first 3 chapters of Future of thinking contained 87 questions [sentences that contained a “?”, others could have been posed in a different structure]. I couldn’t help but notice in my reading how often...
This week we are talking about participatory culture and its impact on learning, while using Scratch as a sort of case-study. I have discussed Scratch (and Code.org) in prior blogs this year and I...
This week I had the pleasure of picking the brain of my colleague, Dr. Lydia Hallman, who is the Director of Curriculum for my school district. Dr. Hallman was a physics teacher and now...
This week we are discussing wikis, those wonderful sites we have all come to love, and surprisingly, to trust. It wasn’t long ago where everything you read on Wikipedia came with at least a 50%...
I am not an educator, but this week I’ve found myself thinking about my role as a teacher quite a bit this week as I welcomed my first child, a baby girl, into the...
Connected Learning and Interest-Driven Learning The role of the learner has begun a drastic shift as our educational system embraces the digital age. In Rethinking Learning, the shift centers around learners who become more engaged...
This week we were tasked with reading both Thomas & John Seely Brown’s A New Culture of Learning and George Siemens’ Connectivism. In A New Culture of Learning the first chapter introduces a few ideas, namely that of “arc...
My philosophy of learning is a bit nebulous or so I thought till I wrote this. I am not a teacher and thus personal experience will play a key role in gaining clarity about...
Welcome back! This week the class read two very interesting articles, Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John S. Brown and Richard Adler and Learning, Working & Playing in...
