October 2011
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Art & Technology: Creating an Assignment at the...
These days articles are published everyday about the disadvantages of technology in education. Will Richardson recently tweeted about his frustration that the media always make the argument “black and white, rather than right time, right place.”
I cannot argue with the fact that technology has made my life easier (even if it’s only made it easier to live a life where I’m a...
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Sunday morning in the woods.
I just spent some time hiking out past the sports fields, past the school-owned cornfields, and into the woods, where a number of years ago, the school had built its first ropes course.
I went out thinking I needed some time to clear my head. LIfe can be overwhelming when you’re essentially working 24/7 at a boarding school.
As I was out there, looking at the ruins of the ropes course...
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Designing Balanced Learning Environments
I’m part of an ongoing conversation on another forum about technology and education. Someone opened up the topic of multi-tasking and I though you guys might have some interesting thoughts as well. Part of what made the OB wilderness experience I recently participated in so impressive for me was the “slowing down” and the dedicated time for processing and reflection.
I’m...
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Ravitch: Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing... →
kateoplis:
For the past decade, 15-year-old Finnish students have consistently been at or near the top of all the nations tested in reading, mathematics, and science. And just as consistently, the variance in quality among Finnish schools is the least of all nations tested, meaning that Finnish students can get a good education in virtually any school in the nation. That’s equality of...
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The Processing Pinnacle
Well gee, it’s been a while since I’ve made my way over here.
I’ve been working hard and currently I’m dug in deep on a lot of projects.
I thought I’d share a book I just finished that many of you educators might find invaluable. It’s all about processing experience and facilitating that processing for students so they have a better...
