… that’s how big my classroom is. On Thursday my class in Snow Lake had our first Skype call of the year on our second day of school. We skyped with Heather Durnin‘s class in Wingham ON. (Heather is a plpeep btw…) Today our call was simply to connect our two classes and let our kids meet for the first time. Because this will be the first of many. Heather and I have hooked our classes up for the...
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Ended my first day of school with an unexpected interview with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) regarding social media and student grades. A new study out of the Netherlands “sounded the alarm” that kids who study while on Facebook or other forms of social...
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A great quote from a recent Stephen Downes post: “Software colonizes. It imposes order as surely as statutes and police” Is the software you use in your system meant to control and impose order, or to free students to be connected, creative and reflective?
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This is a picture of my two sons. Christian (left – without the gun; he’s not grouchy honest, just a bad time for a picture.) and Alexander (right – still without the gun). I took this photo in Deadwood SD this summer right after...
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“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...
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