Archive | January, 2010

Educon 2.2 Reflections

This will not be pretty. This will not be orga­nized. This will not be thor­ough, or ana­lyt­i­cal, or even insight­ful, per­haps. There will be no links, or ref­er­ences, or resources.

I haven’t had time to process much (if any) of what I’ve absorbed in the last two days, and I’ve prob­a­bly missed more than I’ve man­aged to catch. As I have time to go back and review my notes, revisit the ses­sions (thank you Ellu­mi­nate!) and think about all that I’ve learned, I’m sure I will come back and share. But for now, it will just have to be raw and unpolished.

First, Educon really and truly is as adver­tised: it’s all about the con­ver­sa­tions. Some were deeper than oth­ers, some were more for­mal than oth­ers, but all of them were worth­while and helped me grow.

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Better Tools or Better Teaching?

Ted Williams
Image by GregPC via Flickr

It’s a line you’ve prob­a­bly seen on ads for sports equip­ment:

Bet­ter Tools for Bet­ter Performance


A debate is swirling among many peo­ple in my PLN about what’s more impor­tant: the tools and tech­nol­ogy, or the teach­ing and learning. Before I begin explor­ing exam­ples of great tech­nol­ogy tools to use with gifted stu­dents, I thought it would be worth explor­ing, since it is directly rel­e­vant. The crux of it can be sum­ma­rized in this exchange I had recently with Tony Bal­dasaro (@baldy7) on Twit­ter: Read More…