Miguel Guhlin’s post, “Helping Others Understand” triggers some interesting questions for ed tech leaders. How would you show a new upper administrator what you do? Miguel chose to provide a graph showing how many Instructional Technology Workshops were given and another graph showing how those workshops broke down by topic. He uses the data to [...]
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Posted in John Taylor Gatto, educational technology, inquiry learning, inspiration, journeys, k-12 education, learning, student leadership, teachers, transformation, web 2.0, writers in electronic residence on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Writers in Electronic Residence is a phenomenal program, founded by Trevor Owen, that has been running in Canada since 1988. The program links published authors with student writers in electronic salons where writers get feedback on their work and can communicate with other students and their professional counterparts. One of the authors, Susan Musgrave, describes [...]
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Posted in ed tech planning, educational technology, executive coaching, inquiry learning, inquiry teaching, k-12 education, leadership, learning, new beginnings, practice, teachers, transformation on May 20, 2007 | 10 Comments »
School reformers are trying to shift the deeply rooted school culture that has been in place for a century. We are attempting to shift the beliefs and values of a school community that are deeply entrenched. In my experience, when seeking to change the beliefs, values, and culture of others, logic does not apply.
If we [...]
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Posted in educational technology, executive coaching, inspiration, intentions, journeys, k-12 education, leadership, leadership development, learning, new beginnings, purpose, teachers, transformation on May 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
So much of what we do is done without thinking, automatically. We may ask a question and then answer it without giving our students time to think and answer on their own. We may always be at the center of classroom activity; things revolve around us. We may have a pessimistic streak, tend to see [...]
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Posted in educational technology, inquiry learning, inquiry teaching, inspiration, k-12 education, learning, new beginnings, practice, socratic method, student leadership, teachers, transformation on May 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
How would the educational system change if every teacher asked the following questions before starting each day?
What am I going to do with my students today?
What is it good for?
How do I know?
Would you click here to go to Rick Garlikov’s fantastic site to see how he taught average third grade, public school students binary [...]
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Posted in inspiration, intentions, k-12 education, learning, new beginnings, purpose, stories, student leadership, teachers, transformation on May 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was on the phone with my “teacher”. The conversation had moved to an important crossroads, I was learning to open my heart more fully. At that moment, he said softly, “Look at that, a spider just appeared by the window.” I was confused. What did this spider have to do with our work together? [...]
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Posted in educational technology, executive coaching, inspiration, journeys, k-12 education, leadership, leadership development, learning, teachers, transformation on May 4, 2007 | 6 Comments »
From The New York Times Editorial/ Letters Page
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Posted in ed tech planning, educational technology, executive coaching, inspiration, journeys, k-12 education, leadership, leadership development, learning, practice, purpose, student leadership, teachers, transformation on May 1, 2007 | 9 Comments »
The beauty of technology can seduce us. The power of technology can lead us to attribute almost “magical” powers to it. As leaders, we need to resist technology’s “Siren’s call”, pause, and reflect.
Scott McLeod posts a great question over at Dangerously Irrelevant:
“Given the realities of the modern age and the demands of our children’s [...]
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