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Digital Learning Day is February 1, 2012. Although I will also be exploring the best way to get my students to write/read digitally for that day, it dawned on me that we, as educators, need to continue...
I'm assisting our testing coordinator during our Assessment of Course Performance (ACP) week. That's semester exams for all of you on-Dallas ISD folks. It's four days of two 2-hour tests per day. It got me thinking. I know students should be assessed in a timely manner, frequently with effective feedback. I get it. But this is four entire days of district tests... it just reminds me of what is to come for our students. We have state assessments, state assessments for English Language Learners, state assessment...
via digitalis.nwp.org What are you doing for Digital Learning Day? I would love to hear your ideas. Anyone else trying to get the whole school involved? How are you doing this? Thanks for your input!!
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02 DECEMBER, 2011 The Secret of Life from Steve Jobs in 46 Seconds by Maria Popova “Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” It’s hard to believe it’s been almost two months since Steve Jobs passed away. And yet, despite all the personal remembrances and timeless quotes and unearthed documentaries, this 46-second interview excerpt featured in a recent PBS documentary on Jobs captures his wisdom, his genius, and his vision for life more articulately and succinctly than anything else. When...
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I am most intrigued by James Paul Gee's notion of gamers having an arsenal of identities to choose from when playing video games. Isn't that the case for most of us in this participatory culture of ours? We all have various identities that we carry with us. Be it mother, student, teacher, consultant, blogger, wife, daughter, etc. These are the many hats we wear, and like it or not, we cannot or should not try to be all of these identities at once. There is a time and a place, a context specific for each identity...