Reflections on Teaching

Well, I don’t know if I’m ready for a closeup, but I’m going live…starting on July 9th, I’ll be doing It’s Elementary Webcast on the Edtechtalk Channel with Lisa Durff, and Jose Rodriguez. This will be a show specifically about technology in the elementary classroom. I hope you will join me there.
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In the spirit of adding more art to my life, I’m going to reflect on what I’m listening to and inflict it oh so briefly on you. Your welcome to make other suggestions about what I should be listening to. I’m having to include video in some cases so I can post them legally.
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Woke up, had ham and eggs for breakfast, read my feeds, went for a walk……

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Listened to a GREAT WoW2.0 webcast from NECC tonight. One participant (I think it was Wes Fryer) shared that he loved having artists (a dancer I think) included in a presentation and that we need to spend time with artists. Here are some interesting things I’ve seen that made an impression on me:

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Came across this post: TechnoMisogyny 2007 » The Future of Education ? Puh-lease! on on Ed Tech Talk Weekly. Can I say, I’m not impressed? First, the comment from G. Siemens shows how wrong she got the situation. Unlike Tim, who asked some hard questions, but pointed fingers at everyone (himself included), this post is [...]

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I will be starting a new position teaching computer skills in a different elementary school. The school demographics are very similar to my current school, but the administrator is a real leader and has a great reputation, so I’m looking forward to working with him a lot. It will be a big change, I will [...]

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Lot’s of talk around the edublogosphere about equity in education, and what poor, language learners need to succeed. First, Scott McLeod points to an article out of Portland, Oregon to ask “To script or not to script?”.
The discussion continued at The Elementary Educator with Poor Minority Kids Need Scripted Teaching; Everyone Else Deserves Something Better
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Scott McLeod on Dangerously Irrelevant: Did You Know? 2.0 features a redo of Did You Know, that includes suggested actions at the end. Based on this phenomenal effort, I now need to take back all the snide, and  critical things I’ve said about policy campaigns in the edublogosphere. Thank you Scott and Karl!

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