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29 Sep 09

The Bamboo Project Blog: It's Not the Tool That's Boring. It's You.

Very common problem addressed here: expecting the technology to do the teaching.

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  • As adults we look at an empty cardboard box and see it as a storage
    device. Somewhere to put 'stuff'. As children we looked at that same
    cardboard box and saw a plane. A car. A train. An adventure waiting to
    happen. What happened to our own creativity? It seems like we get
    confronted by a 'virtual learning environment' and think that's enough.
    The learning will happen regardless of the effort we put into it.
    Wrong! So, so wrong! When eLearning works, it's an amazing,
    interesting, vibrant, evolving, engaging, rich space. When it's just a
    shell. A place to download PowerPoints... boy oh boy is it a sad bag.
    • Isn't that the truth! - on 2009-09-29
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14 Sep 09

CriticalThinking.org - Critical Thinking Model 1

A great model to help students, and teachers, ask the right questions and figure out how to completely surround an issue with thought.

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06 Aug 09

Participatory Learning - Class - Tell your teacher where to go

Will Farren's very interesting project whereby students can lead him to travel to new places and interact with various people.

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19 Jun 09

Students' summer reading reports go online in real time : Local News : Memphis Commercial Appeal

  • "Summer reading had gotten really dead," said Caroline Goodman, AP English teacher and outgoing president of the Memphis Shelby Council of Teachers of English. "We as teachers weren't really excited about it anymore, and the students weren't either."

Student Work

This is an interesting way for groups to look at student work and the work of the teachers creating the assessments.

www.lasw.org/CAC_steps.html - Preview

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18 Jun 09

Langwitches » Defensive Teacher Attitude- Just the Way it is?

Sylvia Tolisano's post about defensiveness and how to combat it.

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  • I have said, “We must be explicit about what we want students to know, understand and be able to do.”


    What some heard was, “You are not doing a good job.”


    I have said, “We will be more effective [if] we collaborate and work together to figure out how to best meet the needs of our students.”


    What some heard was, “You are not doing a good job.”


    I have said, “The responsibilities of public education have changed; we can learn together how to be successful in this new environment.”


    What some heard was, “You are not doing a good job.”


    I have said, “I believe in the ability of teachers to reach and teach ALL children.”


    What some heard was, “You are not doing a good job.”

    • Ouch. But I think we've all been in this spot before when working with teachers and introducing change. We enter a room and immediately people feel their competence is in question. Starting from there, how do you build? - on 2009-06-12
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15 May 09

Where’s the Innovation? | always learning

Kim Cofino's outstanding post about innovation and where it comes from. I'd like to couple this with Ryan Bretag's post about technology integration that focuses on similar ideas.

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