Blog Profile / A Difference
| URL : | http://adifference.blogspot.com/ | |
|---|---|---|
| Filed Under: | Education / Learning | |
| Posts on Regator: | 147 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Digital Citizenship ? Digital Ethics
Maybe this is just a personal pet peeve of mine but there's a difference between Digital Ethics (ethical and responsible use and behaviour) and Digital Citizenship. The later is really about doing the things a good citizen does: participate...Show More Summary
"60 000 times faster than text" ... Really?
I just got an email from Alan Levine. He's sniffing around for the origin of the quote many folks have often used, myself included, that we process visual information 60 000 times faster than text.
Here's what Alan said:
I need your help. Show More Summary
Linked text is different
cc licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by Jack Amick
A few years back my friend Bud Hunt published an unusual post on his blog; it was titled Going South. In just a few short sentences he shared that he'd be spending a week visiting his grandfather's garden. Show More Summary
Too Big To Know #edbookclub
Image by dkuropatwa via Flickr How'd you like to know "how our concept of knowledge is changing in the age of the Net"? (John Seely Brown quoted from the dust jacket)
Since I first heard David Weinberger say: "The smartest person in the room is: The Room!" I've repeated it often. Show More Summary
The Difference Between Curriculum and Pedagogy
There's a difference between curriculum and pedagogy. Curriculum is all about what we teach. Pedagogy is about how we teach it.
There's also a difference between knowing how to do something and understanding what you're doing. In mathematics...Show More Summary
How would you plan a reunion?
How would you plan a reunion with a bunch of people you're terribly fond of, many of whom you've never met face-to-face, who you touch base with only occasionally and live in places scattered across the globe?
A few years back I lead...Show More Summary
Narrative Matters
Last night a group of Manitoban educators got together to talk about teaching and learning and how that learning takes flight when we take advantage of new opportunities offered by technology. The evening was framed around having the...Show More Summary
The Character of Test Questions
Image by rwillia532 via Flickr
In my math classes a typical test is modeled on the character of test questions students will see on their final exams: multiple choice, short answer and long answer.
In a grade 10 math class, what we used to call Applied Math 20S, a multiple choice question might be:
A factory makes tents. Show More Summary
Building Learning Communities 2011
These are the slides from the three presentation I did at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston this week. While I've played with many of the ideas in these presentations before, in other contexts, I worked hard to re-imagine and rework them for the conference. Show More Summary
How would I prepare to teach a BYOD class?
I've been thinking and reading about what it would be like to teach a (math) class in a school with a Bring Your Own Device policy.
My answer: "My class will teach the world what they learn with me. Everything will be accessible online and on a mobile device."
Here's what I would set up:
1. Show More Summary
Managing G+ Circles
Circles / Círculos (Abstracción 011) / Claudio Alejandro Mufarrege / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
I'm trying to get my head around using Google+. The
The Google+ Circles feature fascinates me. Initially I read everything I could about how people were using it. Show More Summary
Math @ TED
I'm a big fan of TED. They've published over 900 talks to date, not counting all the TEDx talks and I expect they'll hit 1000 just about in time for the new school year. (I wonder if we should do something about that?) Anyway, I've used...Show More Summary
What I've Been Up To ...
hSo the blog's been pretty quiet, I haven't blogged much since the summer. I've been sharing stuff in a number of my other online spaces and I figured it was time for an update so here's what I've been up to... All the workshops I did last year in my day job are housed on my Sr. Show More Summary
That's Really Hard Work
Cross posted from the November Learning blog.
Community First
Michael Wesch by flickr user poptech
Michael Wesch's keynote this morning was simply breathtaking. In the follow up breakout session someone asked him: "How do you stop students...Show More Summary
Creating Images with Style
Seeing History by dkuropatwa
I'm at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston this week. I've been asked to guest blog over there during the conference. I'm cross posting here as well. (Maybe it'll encourage me to do this more often... Show More Summary
Canadian DMCA: You Can Stop This
Image by dkuropatwa via Flickr
Copied verbatim from Clarence who copied verbatim from Michael Geist. Please keep this going; repost. Especially if you're Canadian. This is really important. You're going to want to be able to tell your kids and grandkids "I tried to stop it. Show More Summary
Teaching (a pedagogical framework)
When I'm asked, in email or face to face, to explain how I use (blogs, wikis, podcasts, what have you) with my students I usually begin by saying: "That's not a short answer." While knowledge of how a particular tool works is important,...Show More Summary
Teaching Interdependance
... was the title of the Keynote address I gave to 500+ educators at this year's B.Y.T.E. conference. The sense I had of the audience was that many of the ideas I talked about here were new to them. A quick survey of the room while giving...Show More Summary
"Infotention" or scraping the cream off the top of what you want to know
How do you deploy your attention? Infotention: “Honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevantShow More Summary
Always Beta 03: textbooks Learning Platforms
If you missed it: part 1, part 2. In this third part of my interview with Carly Shuler we talk about reimagining digital textbooks as learning platforms. 11 min 25 sec Download (10 Mb) I haven't done much digging in this space until recently. Show More Summary