I am attending the ASCD annual conference in Philadelphia, and spent yesterday in a day-long pre-conference session by Bobb Darnell about encouraging an environment for high achievement for all students. During the session I learned some new things and gained some new techniques that I will bring back to my district and share with other staff members. I was […]
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Edcamp: A Professional Development Amuse Bouche
I spent this past Saturday at edcamp Philly. Edcamp is an unconference: a gathering of professional educators that is deliberately structured differently than your typical professional conference. Instead of a set schedule of presenters and vendors, predefined and preselected by a committee, the attendees create the schedule on the fly by proposing their own sessions. The topics at […]
Educon 2011: More Deep Thoughts
Yesterday, I wrote about two of my big picture takeaways from the first day of Educon. Day 2 indeed continued that pattern. I still heard references to student voice and student passions in every session. And my assumptions continued to be challenged, and are continuing to be challenged today as the “Educon hangover” sets in and the extra […]
I Don't Know
For the fourth post in our series on gifted education we turn to Jeff Agamenoni, who posts as @teacherman79 on Twitter. Though relatively new to gifted education, Jeff’s experience in education and honest perspective on teaching made him a natural choice to invite as a guest blogger here. Jeff is also active in Second Life and Quest […]
ISTE 2010: Emerging Themes
Two themes are emerging in what I’m learning here at ISTE 2010. These aren’t new ideas by any stretch, even to me. It’s just that they are being driven home in very powerful and deep ways. The world is small and flat. Not precisely in the sense that Thomas Friedman meant in his book, but in […]
Hallways: The Original PLN
Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Social networking, if you believe half of what you read, is a 21st-century, Web 2.0 phenomenon that has exploded onto our culture through our youth. Anyone that was around before the Web was even a 1.0 knows this is hogwash. Social networking has been around as long as there have been […]