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Preparing for Teachers Teaching Teachers on August 22

Continuing the reflecting process, I just had a productive Hangout with Paul Allison, brainstorming and planning for ding a session on Teachers Teaching Teachers (TTT) on August 22 about the 3rd Space Conference last July and our followup activities. I have

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The relevance of rigor relegates reality to “after”-school: The Third Space

I’ve been struggling, ruminating, reflecting, about the relevance of rigor, given the comment by the MacArthur Foundation representative that it’s understandable for parents to resist the idea that we are “experimenting” on their kids in the high stakes world of

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Writing regularly

Just back yesterday from a week in St. Louis at the 3rd Space Conference, and I’m brimming with ideas for things I want to write about: Men Who Wear Scarves and Cry in Public What’s it like for birds to have

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Reviving my blogging

It’s been a whole year since I really blogged here, doing too many other things. But it feels like time to start up…

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“I will march headlong into the teeth of your blame machine…”

Links to SOS March videos: Save Our Schools Rally For Education July 30, 2011 http://bit.ly/n4kNvk [1] Save Our Schools: The March to the White House July, 30 2011 http://bit.ly/nCI1Ge %5B2%5D John Kuhn, Superintendent of Perrin-Whitt School District in Texas speaks at SOS

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Telling the computer what to do

There’s a blog post by Miguel Guhlin in which he says something like, “For the most part, with black and brown kids, the computer tells them what to do. Only white kids get to tell the computer what to do.”

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Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child as a Wordle

Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child as a Wordle Link to the public file – click on the small image

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aBowman’s dog gadget

Many thanks to Elisa Gopin @edtechtoday in Israel, who has this posted on her website http://www.lifelong-learner.com/ and to the Twitter hashtag #digitalstorytelling which introduced us.

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The heart of darkness, the liver of twilight, and…

the brain of the day… Today as we were leaving clay class with Tom, he said, “I want all your work to come from the heart of darkness.” And I asked, “What about the liver of twilight?” I thought, but

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Presidential Math

Rachel Maddow had a brilliant analysis of Obama’s budget speech on her show last night. She lauded the President for “committing math” in public, and made a great show with freeze frames of recreating his image for what the Republican

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