I can only write about blogging from my point of view and what I have learned about the bloggers that I follow in my Google Reader and blog post that are recommended through my Twitter feed. In some ways I feel uncomfortable writing about it here, but after reading posts at Langwitches about the posts [...]
Entries Tagged as 'learning'
Ramblings about Literacy and Blogging
December 2, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging, Common Core Standards, connective writing, Content-Area Writing, Digital Literacies, learning, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies
Tags: Blogging·common core standards·early literacy·langwitches·learning·literacy·social studies
What’s Your Pulse?
December 1, 2011 · No Comments · Common Core Standards, leadership, learning, literacy
Today Kay Connors @kconners09 has given permission for me to repost this blog post from her blog at Dimensional Learning. The other day I was learning from Kay in a chat at #edchat on Twitter. The timing for this post is awesome with some of the discussion we are having on the district level in [...]
Tags: Kay Connors·learning
Literacy in Social Studies: KWL revisited
November 28, 2011 · 4 Comments · learning, Literacy in Social Studies
KWL Chart Revisited It was 18 years ago that the KWL chart was introduced to me and it took me 10 years of teaching to figure out why using a KWL chart is an important thinking tool. It was four years ago I discovered it was a thinking tool rather than a graphic organizer. I [...]
The Objective of Education is Learning not teaching
November 10, 2011 · No Comments · Podcast
Featured Podcast It’s learning not teaching…. See Mind Shift.. Who in the classroom has learned the most? It is always the teacher. When you teach something, you learn it….Faculty members are better learners than students… The Objective of Education is Learning not teaching on Huffduffer
Tags: learning·learning not teaching·podcast·teaching and learning
Mind Shift
November 4, 2011 · 5 Comments · 21st Century, learning, reflecting, Teaching
There has to be a mind shift from the familiar traditional learning environment. In a traditional learning environment the classroom is teacher centered and the teacher is upstage and the teacher has all the control over learning. 21st century thinking the thinking is reversed. The classroom is learner centered and what happens in the [...]
Tags: 21st century thinking·guaranteed viable curriculum·learning·mind shift·teacher·Teaching·traditional learning
Learning in a Network Part 3
October 27, 2011 · 1 Comment · birthday, Blogging, learning
Continuation of Part 1 and Part 2- Learning in a Network I blog to learn and to share my raw thoughts. What I write may serve no real purpose except for me. I may never get any feedback or comments which I rarely do, unless I hit a nerve from one who thinks differently- which [...]
Learning in a Network Part 2
October 26, 2011 · 2 Comments · learning
This is a continuation from Learning in a Network Part 1. The other day I was asked what I thought the future trends in education are. (I am actually working on a blog post about the topic) But one of the biggest trends is “learning in a network beyond the walls of the classroom.” We [...]
Charleston Archival Challenge (part 3)
October 12, 2011 · 1 Comment · Miscellaneous, social studies, TAH
March 2, 201 I wrote a post about the first Archival Challenge with another group of teachers. Both group of teachers have taught me so much. As part of my reflection, here is a letter to the teachers about the day. I solicit your thoughts as well. Part One Part Two Dear Teachers, I [...]
Tags: charleston archival challenge·learning·primary sources·reflecting·storyline
How do students really learn?
March 11, 2011 · No Comments · 21st Century, 21st century classroom, 21st Century Literacies, learning
We are still stuck where the knowledge lives with the walls of the classroom and where the teacher controls the knowledge. Diana Laufenberg knows some of the answers. Listen to her words. We have to find ways to network learning and push students to move beyond the walls of the classroom. Diana makes a point [...]
Learning Profile- Differentiated Instruction
December 15, 2010 · 1 Comment · Differentiating Instruction, learning, Teaching
Over the last few days, I have been rereading parts of Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau book Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom. In order to lead a DI classroom, the professional teacher must be well aware of the the learner’s needs in the classroom. I don’t think that this has changed much in [...]
Tags: Carol Ann Tomlinson·DI·differentiated instruction·gender education·Howard Gardner·innovation·learning·learning profile·learning style·multiple intelligence·poverty·Sir Ken Robinson·technology
