Reflections on Teaching

I will be taking off for the San Francisco Bay Area for the Classroom 2.0 LIVE meetup. I’m looking forward to meeting folks, and learning lots of fun stuff.
I will be life UStreaming the wrap up session from 3:00 p.m. PDT on Friday and Saturday on Ed Tech Talk.

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There are many things that I’m doing with the kids this year that I planned on (and they are working well):

I have all my upper-grade classes blogging on a regular basis
I am doing instruction based on both standards, and themes/units they are working on in their regular classrooms. I am communicating well, and regularly with [...]

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Sadly this week, I had to say goodbye to the AmeriCorp tutors who have been working for the last 2 months at my school. They were the most fantastic group of workers, and I will miss all of them (especially the one working in my lab) a lot.
Friday January 25, 2008 in a sentence
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Hey folks! It’s all about the carnivals this week…
Creating Lifelong Learners » Blog Archive » Digital Storytelling Blog Carnival #1 To late for this round, but a post on podcasting that I did for the next carnival listed, was picked up by Matt. Join the next round in February!
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites Of The [...]

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Dan Myer dy/dan » Blog Archive » Sinister Storytelling takes on criticism from Tom Hoffman about the recent Annual Report contest, and whether it’s about storytelling, or merely marketing. He feels that trying to ape corporations with our personal reports will lead something less than substantive.
So which is it?

A mere means of pushing a product.
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This thread will be about reflections on “Design Matters” and practices in my classroom. Before looking forward on what I need to change, I wanted to look at my current practices to see what is working, and what needs adjustment.
First, I am teaching my students about design:
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Quote of the week:
“There is no “instructional plan” by design since Papert and others involved in the vision behind OLPC do not believe that learning results from an emphasis on instruction.
http://www.papert.org/articles/const_inst/const_inst1.html”
– Quote from Gary Stager, Ph.D. Wes Fryer’s Speed of Creativity blog about my comment on OLPC
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I was asked to create a PowerPoint to show off what I’m doing in the computer lab to parents. There is a ~monthly meeting the principal has with parents. I said I thought I could do a short video (2 minutes) about as easily as the PowerPoint.
Rather than start work on that over break, I [...]

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