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Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51
They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. - dfw 
It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. - dfw
Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. - dfw
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They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. - dfw
It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. - dfw
Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. - dfw
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They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. - dfw
It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. - dfw
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It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. - dfw
I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. - dfw
:-) - dfw
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We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. - dfw
What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. - dfw
Yep! - dfw
Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. - dfw
We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. - dfw
Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. - dfw
You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is true is logic. - dfw
They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. - dfw
Hurrah for building and breaking. - dfw
There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there. - dfw
..and give them permission to invent them. - dfw
It's a critical part of being literate. - dfw
I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. - dfw
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Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. - dfw
But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. - dfw
Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. - dfw
My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. - dfw
It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. - dfw
Bingo! - dfw
It's the truth of the goal. Does the information help you accomplish your goal within an ethical context. - dfw
Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.
The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. - dfw
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Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. - dfw
Read Drive. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here...
That's the one! - dfw
Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. - dfw
Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons. - dfw
They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. - dfw
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An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster.
The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, educating or training. - dfw
It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. - dfw
..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. - dfw
That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.
My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen. - dfw
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Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. - dfw
"..the future they are going to invent." - dfw
The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. What's difficult for us is the fact that these skills can not be easily itemized and that's what teachers like to do, to sequence a list of skills. It's experience and a productive conversation about that experience. I'm reminded of Bill Edwards, my freshman vocational arts teacher. - dfw
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Now starting to read it. Just passed 10,000 feet, probably over Idaho. - dfw
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Now starting to read it. Just passed 10,000 feet, probably over Idaho. - dfw
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Hmmm! I should add a feature to signal what type of device you are chatting with. I think I could do that. Might be helpful to me or just interesting. - dfw
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Yes! That must of been uncomfortable. It's really hard to expect you to sit and listen to one person for so long, in such small seats. I know that I've spent days at conferences attending sessions, and then the next day presenting the entire day, and sitting and listening made me much more tired. - dfw
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Yes! That must of been uncomfortable. It's really hard to expect you to sit and listen to one person for so long, in such small seats. I know that I've spent days at conferences attending sessions, and then the next day presenting the entire day, and sitting and listening made me much more tired. - dfw
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I personally prefer cream-of-wheat. I little more flavor. - dfw
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I personally prefer cream-of-wheat. I little more flavor. - dfw
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I like thinking of it as a learning lifestyle. Lifelong learning seems to me to be speaking of work. But today, it work, play, family, just about every endeavor requires us to learn and keep learning. - dfw
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I like thinking of it as a learning lifestyle. Lifelong learning seems to me to be speaking of work. But today, it work, play, family, just about every endeavor requires us to learn and keep learning. - dfw
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It's just a different state-of-being. ;-) - dfw
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It's just a different state-of-being. ;-) - dfw
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Functionally it is. But the purpose is different. Here, the teacher gets to read all the notes and respond to them. - dfw
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Functionally it is. But the purpose is different. Here, the teacher gets to read all the notes and respond to them. - dfw
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"Naw!" I do wish I still had that neru jacket. - dfw
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"Naw!" I do wish I still had that neru jacket. - dfw
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Thing is, it quite impress folks in that rural South Carolina school district. - dfw
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Thing is, it quite impress folks in that rural South Carolina school district. - dfw
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Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. - dfw
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Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. - dfw
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The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. What's difficult for us is the fact that these skills can not be easily itemized and that's what teachers like to do, to sequence a list of skills. It's experience and a productive conversation about that experience. I'm reminded of Bill Edwards, my freshman vocational arts teacher. - dfw
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An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster.
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An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster.
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The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, educating or training. - dfw
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The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, educating or training. - dfw
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It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. - dfw
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It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. - dfw
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..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. - dfw
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..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. - dfw
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That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.
My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen. - dfw
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That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.
My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen. - dfw
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Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. - dfw
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Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. - dfw
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Read Drive. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here...
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Read Drive. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here...
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That's the one! - dfw
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That's the one! - dfw
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Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. - dfw
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Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. - dfw
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Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons. - dfw
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Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons. - dfw
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They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. - dfw
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They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. - dfw
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Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. - dfw
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Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. - dfw
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But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. - dfw
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But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. - dfw
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Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. - dfw
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Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. - dfw
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My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. - dfw
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My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. - dfw
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It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. - dfw
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It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. - dfw
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Bingo! - dfw
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It's the truth of the goal. Does the information help you accomplish your goal within an ethical context. - dfw
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Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.
The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. - dfw
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Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.
The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. - dfw
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We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. - dfw
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We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. - dfw
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What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. - dfw
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What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. - dfw
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Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. - dfw
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Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. - dfw
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We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. - dfw
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We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. - dfw
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Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. - dfw
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Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. - dfw
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You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is true is logic. - dfw
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You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is true is logic. - dfw
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They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. - dfw
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They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. - dfw
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Hurrah for building and breaking. - dfw
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Hurrah for building and breaking. - dfw
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There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there. - dfw
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There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there. - dfw
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..and give them permission to invent them. - dfw
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It's a critical part of being literate. - dfw
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It's a critical part of being literate. - dfw
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I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. - dfw
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I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. - dfw
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It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. - dfw
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It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. - dfw
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I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. - dfw
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I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. - dfw
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They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. - dfw
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It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. - dfw
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Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. - dfw
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Keri
I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others?
27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29
Kim
Back channel our classes & groups
27 Aug 2013 - 12:49:20