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An Open-ended Fable
In a tug of war between the wisdom of the crowd and competition, who wins? The elders of the small town of Forwardthink, nestled at the delta of Hereandnow River, declared that they wanted the very...
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The Fable continues
(previously, in the town of Forwardthink…) The elders of the town of Forwardthink have surprised the Innovators once again. A mere week after they invited Innovators from far and wide to re-display...
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The next chapter from the land of Forwardthink
In a tug of war between the wisdom of the crowd and competition, who wins? Our narrator has been scurrying about in the land of Forwardthink . The story continues! You may want to refresh your memory...
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Marveling at Matryoshka dolls/boxes
There is a stir in Forwardthink. MySciLife, our finalist entry in the Digital Media and Learning Competition, is complete, including this video. One of these days I’ll upgrade our version of...
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Conclusion and Epilogue from Forwardthink
This is the final episode in a long fable, and perhaps the start of another. Unravel the previous chapters here. The town of Forwardthink has completely changed. At the stroke of midnight (about 1 pm...
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Bringing science to life — finally!
Bringing science to life. If you’d like to see what happens when middle level students are turned loose to learn in a social learning environment for science, peek into MySciLife. Finally, after two...
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Digital citizenship as “community awareness”
We are social beings, so why not use that to frame digital citizenship in the context of community? This time of year, teachers are establishing the ground rules for their classrooms: what is expected,...
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Real and Permanent Good: A teacher’s mission
I often hear NPR underwriting messages about The Carnegie Foundation and their mission to do “real and permanent good.” Isn’t that why we became teachers, to do real and permanent good? How do we know...
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What happens when we pull the plug
There is another kind of digital divide: when kids go from a “connected” learning environment back to a traditional classroom. Yesterday I visited a sixth grade classroom filled with students about to...
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Social learning and student writing: A delicate teaching dance
As teachers, we all work to balance high expectations while differentiating for various abilities and needs. When we set “requirements” in a digital, social learning community, it is indeed a delicate...
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Super Bowl #eduwin
When learning works, it feels like a Super Bowl victory to a teacher. Unlike the Super Bowl, we receive no media hype, give no interviews, wear no ring, never have a sexy half time show, and certainly...
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A labor of love: My(insertadjectivehere)Life
Since April, I have been involved in a project that has stretched my thinking, my imagination, and — at times– my patience. After over three years of looking, The Source for Learning (SFL), the...
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Language Limits: Captioning the pictures of learning
How do you explain what you know and do every day as a teacher? Would anyone other than another teacher understand you? I gave a tour of MySciLife to some non-educators this week. After decades as an...
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