My 'Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts' Blog

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My thoughts on education, learning, and technology.

This web page includes many links to blog posts that I consider to be some of the highlights of my blog so far.

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My Web2.0

(More links coming soon - I'm moving my blog to a new home!)

My Resources: Many of these have blog posts that describe them. (Post)

My Classroom Tools:

My Blog Posts:

Posts that belong in My Web2.0 collection, but are not necessarily resources.

  • Learning Conversations: A great introduction to my blog early on, with summaries of many other posts.
  • The Web2.0 Prophecy: an Adventure: By far my most popular post! A look at how the web has evolved, where it is now, and where it is heading.
  • School 2.0 Participant's Manifesto: "When I enter I will be prepared to learn, to participate, to engage, to discover, to play, to inquire, to create..."
  • David Warlick's K12 Online Conference Keynote: Teacher as compass. A quote here helps to inspire this next post...
  • The digital native, the digital naive, and the digital divide: Are students today digital natives? I would say only a select few that have chosen to be so (out of interest in what technology has to offer as opposed to a birthright of a generation).
  • "the use of blogs to learn, not just to teach":'Am I adding technology to my teaching or providing students with new learning and new ways to learn?'
  • Synthesize and Add Meaning: We must change what we do. We need to be adept at creating flexible, differentiated learning environments.
  • Square Peg, Round Hole: A composition of other people's thoughts and ideas... with a theme.


Other Posts... Not-so-Web2.0, but worth sharing...

The following are not in the My Web2.0 collection:

Relating specifically to Math/Numeracy:

  • Numeracy & Problem Solving: Process Producibles: "...as you work on this 'sometimes messy' math, it is important to let students know what specifically you are assessing them for, and then you need to 'raise the bar' on expected producibles as students: get used to you assessing 'different' skills; and, as they improve their thinking skills!"
  • Assessment and Rote Learning: Math Conundrums: "In some ways I think this really should be two posts, one on Assessment and one on Rote Learning of Multiplication/Division Skills, but I also think they fit well together."


Relating specifically to Social Responsibility:

  • More than one face to Cyberbullying in the classroom: Four 'D's can get you sent to the office... in this case, "It would not have been too hard to handle this situation on my own. However, I think that making a very public issue such as this into an office concern raises the profile of such an incident. It validates that such behavior is simply not tolerated in our school!"
  • "Who have you helped today?" - Developing Empathy: "In the service of others we learn meaningful lessons ourselves. Mark spoke of developing empathy in kids. In so doing, he wondered if standardized testing 'taught' our kids anything meaningful? When do they learn about empathy and love?"
  • $3881.65 for one night's work: "... more on empathy.... enjoy a few tales of the next generation doing good."


...and finally, a personal favorite of mine:

  • A Giant Teaches Me About SUCCESS: a "what are your secrets to a successful life" meme: I am not a meme fan, but I didn't write this for the meme... I wrote it for one of my heroes, and I would like to share it with you.