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my 4 slides – a contest entry

Scott McLeod’s post First … Then … Now … Next introduced me to the 4-slides sales pitch contest, hosted by Dan Meyer at dy/dan. Here are my slides. This was fun to do – AND I discovered an alternative to SlideShare, which has yet to work for me! It is called SlideBurner. **update – now my 4 slides – a contest entry

The tao of teaching in ambiguity

image: Shadowed Crones by Rudha’an, found on flickr and offered under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 license. What I love about keeping a blog is the insight I glean from those in my blogging community. The other day I published a post called Understanding the Machine and in one of Christopher‘s comments I found The tao of teaching in ambiguity

Conversations in edublogging

Image: Conversation by thehighschoolchick made available on flickr with a creative commons license. Lately I have been voraciously reading and learning from different edubloggers. I am seeing my passion for authentic learning for our kids (and myself!) reflected in their posts. Here are just a few of the posts that have turned my crank in Conversations in edublogging

Understanding the machine

Image: machine-free by jrtcollector-Sassy Bella Melange, made available by a creative commons license on flickr All teachers need to get on to letting students create bigger and better things with them — whether the teacher understands the machine or not. Topher Now THERE is the rub. The past few years in education has marked a Understanding the machine

how does technology fit with learning?

Image: Puzzle by edithbruck made available through a creative commons license on flickr. ” It is our goal in developing an integrated curriculum to ensure that the way students learn with technology agrees with the way they live with technology.” I love this goal – written by Dennis and cited by his colleague Justin. It how does technology fit with learning?