Here’s a creative and amusing idea – The Sorted Book Project which has run since 1993 in various locations all over the world. The idea is to take books out of a collection, then select titles and organise them in a particular order so that the titles ‘tell a story’ in sequence.
‘The clusters from [...]
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The Sorted Book Project
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What are we telling our students?
Posted in Education, tagged failure, learning, mistakes, negative, perception, risks, students, teachers, video, words on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found this on Rob Jacobs’ blog.
What does this tell us as educators?
Think before you speak negatively or label a student. Try to find the best in the student. Encourage students to run with their passions, to have a go, to accept difficulties as challenges, to chill out.
We all ‘fail’ at [...]
Kids to tell schools what to teach
Posted in Education, tagged competition, Edutopia, kids, school, skills, students, video on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Calling all students! Edutopia has created a competition asking students to express their opinions about which skills they think their school should teach to help them succeed in life. Recognising young people’s expertise in technology, Edutopia has asked them to submit their opinions in the form of a 60 second video.
The competition closes October [...]
Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age?
Posted in Web 2.0, debate, reading, tagged blogging, blogs, change, concentration, debate, digital, digital_age, email, entertainment, google, intelligence, internet, Literature, media, net, Nicholas Carr, online, paper-and-ink, reading, reading patterns, superficial, The Independent, Web2.0, wikis on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Independent featured an article with this poignant question – can intelligent literature survive in the digital age? As the article says, ‘Is the paper-and-ink book heading the way of the papyrus scroll?’ This is indeed a question worth devoting more than a couple of minutes to.
The crucial question is – whether all [...]
My sister’s art in red, white and black
Posted in art, photos, tagged art, images, pictures, Russian, sister on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just testing to see if I can insert multiple pictures; thought I’d try my sister’s art.
What skills, what intelligence, what’s important
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m having trouble embedding the video, so here’s the link to Daniel Goreman’s talk about emotional intelligence: http://www.edutopia.org/daniel-goleman-sel-video
I’ve been mulling over what 21st century learning is, and why we need to change our understanding and approach to teaching and learning, as well as how to explain it to teachers and parents in a way that [...]
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A picture’s worth a thousand words
Posted in Education, Web 2.0, photos, writing, tagged blog, Brunswick, church, collective, comments, emotions, essay, experiences, memories, online, Orthodox, photos, pictures, project, record, Russian, shared, text, Web2.0, words on September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found ‘A picture’s worth’ on the Learning technology teacher development blog. it’s a wonderful collective version of people’s stories behind their own photos – even more interesting as a kaleidoscopic collection. Starting as a personal project, ‘A picture’s worth’ has developed into a pictorial record of varied experiences and reflections. Submissions of photos [...]
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