“Why do people go to school? Why? Yeah. Didn’t your mother tell you? She just said everyone went. Well … they go to learn. That’s why. To learn what? About the world. What for? I hesitate. I am remembering what my wife said about being positive. I want to be positive. So they can work, I say. So when they grow up they can get a job and they can work. There’s nothing necessarily negative about that, I think.”...
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As much as I love this online space, I freely admit that I prefer to spend my time between the pages of a book. I just can’t get into reading from a screen. I’ve spent the last few days deep down in the pages...
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Over the years that I’ve been using social media and 2.0 technologies in my classroom, I’ve tried plenty of different services. When accounts are free, it is easy to try things out. Of course, what ends up happening is that plenty of these get...
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The tools I’ve been using in my classroom have been mostly static for several years now. While this might seem like an eternity in internet time, we’ve been successful with our model. Blogs, wikis, google docs and open internet service as cornerstones. Many others...
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I put the cart before the horse today. While I’ve constantly preached and believed in the fact that learning need and pedagogy come before selecting tools – I set up a new website today for my classroom and I’m not sure how it will...
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