Andrew B. Watt struck me appropriately on the Sunday night before Night of the Notables with a post – you would do well to read in its entirety here – that makes a great many points that each are deserving of attention and reflection. But there are a few that I want to highlight […]
Read more "Teachers and Ritual Power"Many thanks to Greg for capturing Wednesday and Thursday’s class discussions on his phone and uploading them to Soundcloud, so that we can catch up with what was discussed in a few sprawling conversations that made use of Santa Clause, Tetris, triangles and paradigm shifts to grapple with the development of personal ideas surrounding human knowledge, truth, belief […]
Read more "Epistemological Wayfinding | Remixing Philosophy12 Discussions"Something that really resonated with me, toward the end of the thesis proposed by Gardner Campbell in his OpenEd12 Keynote, was the introduction of Gregory Bateson‘s Hierarchy of Learning, described below. Despite being focused around the purpose of higher education, I see a lot of what my TALONS colleagues and I have sought over the […]
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Read more "Syllogisms, Reasoning & Logic with Batman"Indulging in some gallows humour over Twitter Monday morning, one of my colleagues east of the Rockies and I were consoling D’Arcy Norman after hearing about his Member of Parliament Rob Anders’ remarks concerning the death of NDP leader Jack Layton by highlighting a few recent antics of our own elected representatives: My local MP, caught in a […]
Read more "Matt Henderson: Teaching ourselves to Last Forever"[View the story “TALONS Grade Ten Introductions” on Storify]
Read more "TALONS Blogging Introductions"You can check out the Storify tracking the Social Media progressions of the project here. In what unconsciously turned out to be a culmination of the Fall’s Learning in Public project, guitar class this spring challenged a group of individuals to create and rally around a mutually agreed-upon idea for a new kind of class […]
Read more "Looking back at the Bears Thirty Person Rock Band Project"On Monday I’ll be giving a brief talk to the Langley cohort of Simon Fraser University’s Learning & Teaching with Technology Field Program about Personal Narratives as a framework for learning. Not particularly adept at the nomenclature surrounding and separating ‘frameworks,’ lenses, methods, and mostly considering myself self-taught when it comes to this stuff, I […]
Read more "Storytelling as Learning Tool"[View the story “A DJ is Born | @intrepidteacher Hits the #ds106radio Airwaves” on Storify]
Read more "A DJ is Born"The Bears | We are the bears by GleneagleMusic Now that we have come to the final week of the semester and school year (where did it all go???), the Thirty Person Rock Band Project, since baptized as the Bears, is trying to make its various pieces “land” in time to showcase the fury of […]
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