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Online Learning Networks in Science – An Interview
In keeping with the concept of using this blog as not only a synthesis of what I think, but also of what I do, I add this post. Last week I recorded a telephone interview with the folks at...
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There’s No Week Like EdWeek
Play along? Repeat the title in your head a few times. Did you get an odd desire to click your heels together? If so, it would be understandable. If you truly believe in the sentiment that “there’s no...
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Incorporating Words Into Images
Literally Most would agree that “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Perhaps strangely, allow me to make the case that sometimes there is also value in distilling those thousand words into a scant...
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Conversations On An Instructional Gap
A Conversation In 2007, a then virtual-only colleague asked whether it was, “okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher?” NETS-T provides one standardized, big-picture perspective. Many others...
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iOS as an Art Teacher
Dad disclaimer This blog is entitled nashworld for a reason. You can’t see the subtitle in this stripped-down theme I chose, but it reads: “to teach, to learn, to empower, this is my world.” It was...
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Memorization Is For The Birds, Or Rather, For The Fish
Google: Meet Pocket Much has been said in the past five years or so of the diminished importance of raw memorization. The rise of mobile Internet devices has put “Google” in virtually everyone’s...
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On the Digital World and Culture
When we look ahead to the sorts of things that could be happening (especially where every learner is saddled with an Internet-capable device) in our classrooms and beyond… I just caught this image in a...
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Avoiding “Unmitigated Disasters”
Yet another After stumbling upon the article, “Switch to e-books was ‘an unmitigated disaster,’ says school principal,” in my feed this past week, it occurred to me that there are increasingly...
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Reflecting on Reflection
What makes you smarter? I bet you have a pretty good idea by now. Personally, I get a little smarter every time I’m behind the edit pane of this blog. I have a new bit of research to share that might...
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How Toasted Are Your Lessons?
Lessons Learning is a journey, and your students want to know you are with them. How do you let them know you truly are? In my experience, this is done by creating learning experiences that mean...
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In the Net: On Fish and Farming, Facts and Fear
I almost forgot: and worms. This bit of nonsense popped up yesterday in my Facebook feed. Go ahead, read it. It’s a rough one, but I’ll let you finish before you read my commentary. It isn’t pretty,...
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Failure Is Not An Option
I. Parallels? Why are the mandates of NCLB so difficult to swallow… but yet a rather analogous challenge put forth in the Apollo 13 clip below is resisted for only a short period, and then finally...
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Beginning with the end There… glad I got that out of the way. There ended the longest blogless period I’ve had in about three years. Not that I’ve ever been that prolific. In fact, I’m pretty...
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Principals as Teachers
Defining a title In my neck of the woods, we have a state & foundation-funded organization (Parents as Teachers) that supports parents in their quest to educate children during those crucial first...
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On Being a Public Educator, or: Once Again, Why I Love The Web
Transforming by connection In my time as a teacher, I have tried purposefully to connect my students to experts beyond the walls of our classroom. When I began as a teacher in 1991, this was a pretty...
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I’d Rather
…eat a pizza prepared by Geoffrey Zakarian wielding an Easy Bake oven, than one prepared by, uhhh… damn near anyone else using a $1000 oven. Just saying. Maybe that’s important, maybe it’s not. I’ll...
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EdWeekSJSD: A Litany of Thanks
The calm after the storm I’m beat, but delightfully so. Deep learning is hard work. Designing an ecosystem in which others can learn deeply is even tougher. Teachers know this. I mean, pick your...
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Incorporating Words Into Images
Literally Most would agree that “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Perhaps strangely, allow me to make the case that sometimes there is also value in distilling those thousand words into a scant...
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iOS as an Art Teacher
Dad disclaimer This blog is entitled nashworld for a reason. You can’t see the subtitle in this stripped-down theme I chose, but it reads: “to teach, to learn, to empower, this is my world.” It was...
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Memorization Is For The Birds, Or Rather, For The Fish
Google: Meet Pocket Much has been said in the past five years or so of the diminished importance of raw memorization. The rise of mobile Internet devices has put “Google” in virtually everyone’s...
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