After doing this week’s reading and reading some of my cohort’s posts, a couple things are even more clear than before about how our students and other young people use social media. Social media:...
C2W5: Being a Digital Sherpa
Sense of Urgency Sign under the clock at each of Thomas Keller’s restaurants Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes...
C2W4: The Never-Ending Fight for Truth
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…* Johnathan Swift,...
C2W3: Privacy isn’t overrated
The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life. Falstaff in Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare Oversharing is a thing, and I’m not overly...
C2W1: Do What I Say, Not What I’ve Done
Weeding My Garden I guess my first question about copyright is: if I create an image, do I need to post the copyright status (see the intro to this flowchart), or can I just...
COETAIL – Unit 1: Final Project and Reflection
First, as busy as I am being an early elementary classroom teacher who has a rather long commute and is tired at the end of every day, I’ve really enjoyed this course. It doesn’t...
From Theory into Practice: Connectivism for success-tivism (aka strength in diversity)
This is the second time in this course I’m just now discovering someone has given a name and structure to things I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Of course, if I’d been...
Planning for Tech-Rich Learning: It’s pioneers helping pioneers all the way down
Eureka, someone else found it! Dr. Puentedura, codified something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but he got there way before I did. I do have an excuse for not putting a...
Connected Learning: Putting my time where my mouth is
Is there anything more central to connection than communication via language? I’d like to learn Spanish. And Mandarin. And Cantonese. And Korean (I do live in Seoul, after all), Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, German, Swedish,...
Research in the Internet Age: An Embarrassment and Riches
Remember when there were just a few national newspapers, a local newspaper (or two if you lived in a bigger city), and only three national TV networks with local affiliates? Like Pepperidge Farm, I...