Archive For The “culture” Category
About a year ago, I pasted a quote into Evernote by Chris Lehmann (probably from Educon 2011): If we want our students to grow, we must do that ourselves. This weekend we believe differently. All of us have a stake in the game. Solutions must include us (and our students). We cannot solve problems by [...]
Here’s hoping we all manage to sleep well in years to come. I do worry about our kids who sleep with their phones, squashing any chance of a solid night’s sleep.
I hope Fran doesn’t mind that I’ve shared her words here, in full. I’ve had this on a Word doc that someone shared with me, and I want to be sure I have it saved online as well. It’s worth reading if you haven’t seen it. Is School Good for the Soul? By [...]
One year I was asked to teach a course at the last minute. A friend, an inspiring and creative teacher, gave me her plans to follow. Frankly, it didn’t work. During the year, I remember being frustrated, often feeling like a failure. But I couldn’t figure out why following her plans was so difficult. Now, [...]
Are you a rule-follower? I am. After all, I was an Army officer’s first-born daughter, raised to curtsy and and speak when I had something “nice” to say. Now that’s not all bad. Rule followers and nice people can get pretty far in this world, so I don’t hold this against my parents too much. [...]
Some of us were talking about our “moments,” that is–when we realized our teaching lives had changed forever. Mine was in the fall of 2007. I had been on Twitter for a few months, learning how to connect with like-minded folks about the shifts (re:Karl Fisch). I had caught a tweet from Will Richardson, saying [...]
Hunting
By scm | May 31, 2011
Sometimes we really do live in different worlds. My cat looks out our window and sees a place I can’t imagine. I was reading Eric Sheninger’s post about use of social media on the HuffPost Education blog this morning, and this comment jumped out at me: So often we view the world from our own perspective. But [...]