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David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference Keynote 2006 | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I really like what Warlick says here, and as a classroom teacher I know how much fun those ’side trips’ can be. A great metaphor here, on the theme of learners navigating on their own, is the teacher as the compass. We point in a direction, (not necessarily the direction that the student is going), and we are a reference point or guide to the learning. As students sail (rather than ride the rails) they must choose their destination, (what they want to learn), and tack and adjust their path as they go… using the teacher as a compass that keeps them on their ‘learning’ course.
The Rant, I Can’t, The Elephant and the Ant | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Ants are individually insignificant, but networked in a collaborative way, they literally move mountains! Networked teachers and educators like these I’ve mentioned are moving mountains too, and it is my hope that Student Teachers will see the value of becoming networked and having their students be networked too!
The Power of Educational Technology: Edublog Award Nominations
Here are a few of my favorites.
Best individual blog: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Internet Archive: Details: A Brave New World-Wide Web
My Brave New World Wide Web slide show made into a movie with music.
Kids say the darndest things | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
How do you think the Wright brothers felt after the first flight. Why?
Good. They did something good for once.
Edupunk or Educational Leader? | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
These are not Edupunks, they are Educational Leaders! The reality is that anti-establishment, Do-It-Yourself, transformative, collaborative, networked teachers doing new things, in new ways, in new wall-less, time-zone-less, textbook-less, standardized-test-less classrooms are paving the way for a new kind of schooling.\nAlso see Footnotes 'as a teacher'.
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Footnotes: As a teacher…
I guess you could say that at times I too have ‘acted my way into a new way of thinking’. My actions as a learner influenced my actions as a teacher, as these footnotes suggest.
¹ As a teacher, I don’t take any marks off for something coming in late. It is my job to make sure that students demonstrate their learning and meet the learning outcomes during the year. All time lines within the year are arbitrary (and usually teacher determined) and not a requirement worthy of penalty. Exceptions may be made where either Personal Planning or Goal Setting are part of the outcomes.
² As a teacher, I am very vocal about students needing to speak up and ask questions. “Don’t be a Marshmallow!” was a saying that I took from my Grade 10 English teacher Mr. La Point who used it to symbolize placid students sitting in his class and choosing not to speak up. At first being called Marshmallows in my class was funny, but soon students would catch on that they were not meeting expectations when they were being Marshmallows!
³ As a teacher my response to ‘how long does this assignment need to be?’ has always been, “It needs to be as long as it needs to be.” Students hate this answer, but after a while they get it. In a nutshell: I’ve read three brilliant sentences that have said more than three long-winded paragraphs.
Inaction is action | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Does your inaction reflect who you are or who you’d rather not be?
What comes around | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
The task was simple: Have your advisory pick an issue in the school and then create a video that promotes awareness of the problem and/or a solution to the problem.
Something from Nothing | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
At times my reflections were whimsical; at times they were like whole posts, adding new insights; and at times they either reinforced or challenged what I’d written. My posts are a reflection of my growth as an empowered learner who engages in thoughtful reflection.
Harnessing our advantage | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
...it highlights some of the tools that students used to empower their own learning.
And that brings us back to the idea of leadership. We need to be empowered learners if we want to lead other learners. We need to create an environment that fosters doing new things in new ways, like many cutting edge organizations do.
Ripples and Tidal Waves | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
So many things had to coincide for this opportunity to open up for me. It has been all so overwhelming! A new job, an old job that I couldn’t just drop, and a presentation opportunity… all vying for my time and energy
Do not go quietly into your classroom | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I think this group of future teachers really understood my point that education is changing and our teaching needs to change too!
And finally, I will leave you with this: | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
This is the end of my last post on our class Ning network for Planning 10 this term.
Instantaneous | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I want students to know this kind of learning… in school. I want them to be active members in a global learning network. I want them to follow their own interests, to make choices about what information they will choose to pay attention to, what to check later, and what to filter out. I want students to be 21st Century learners.
What did I do B.G. - Before Google? | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
It seems as thought I have coined a new word: webmodality
Wikipedia has an article on Modality (human-computer interaction), but the intent behind webmodality is less about sense/sensory input or output and much more about presence: it is the lack of separation between input and output. Webmodality is the semantic co-relation or interface between humans and their personal intuitive web.
“You can’t go back now, can you?” | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
“You can’t go back now, can you?”
“What?”
“You could never be able to go back to teaching without technology, could you?
“No.”
“I speak digital” :: Digital Exposure | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Basically this is about ‘exposure to’ and ‘integration with’ digital technology at a young age as opposed to ‘adaptation to’ digital technology later on in life.
Evaluating a Journey | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
So how do you create a rubric to give feedback to students about their journey? I decided on a few things first:
1. Reflection is important and needs to be valued.
2. This is a big transition… some forward planning also needs to be valued.
3. This is NOT a grade! (The program is not graded, you just need to meet the requirements.)
4. It needs to be ‘different’ enough that the many different teachers doing the interview won’t fall into ‘grading’ mode.
Most Influential | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
We are influenced by so many things in our lives. Identifying what has a significant influence on us can be difficult. Here are two things that I believe can be categorized as most influential… and they both happened Monday.
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