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Family Legend
Campire Stories A little twist on the Family Legend assignment from the Daily Create let me bring this neighbourhood legend to the Camp Magic Macguffin campfire. They had come from Burnaby, had the...
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We are the Bears
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...
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Carrying Stones
Photo by @cogdog I arrived at Unpludg this year without a finished draft of my letter. Either out of procrastination or by an unconscious but deliberate choice, I made the journey east resolved to not...
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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’...
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…a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle.
I woke up this morning with the lofty goal of revisiting Gardner Campbell‘s keynote from the Open Education conference that went down in Vancouver this week, The Ecology of Yearning. However, the gods...
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Discussion in a Democratic Classroom
To promote human growth. I discovered the above quotation (then highlighted, and apparently even underlined it) in a (photocopy of a) book that Q lent me this week, Discussion as a Way of Teaching....
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Artifacts of Process
Notes on @GardnerCampbell's talk, Teaching, Learning & the Digital Imagination We’ve been talking a lot in Socials lately about how to realize the potential of discussion in the TALONS classroom....
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The Confederation Discussions
This past week, the TALONS classes have hosted and facilitated half-hour long activities and discussions that have been focused on an exploration of historical contexts and details of Canadian...
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Reflections on the Confederation Discussions
Colonial Government & the Need for Reform Discussion As part of the ongoing assessment of personal and collective learning that went into the class’ study of Canadian Confederation, TALONS learners...
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Reengage
Baker's Beach, Francis Peninsula Sunshine Coast, BC For the first time in what feels like a while, I took the almost the entire summer as vacation this year, and came back into school fresh with...
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Liberation Citizenship for the 21st Century
As I continue to wade through Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, it is easy to see its range of influence within faculties of education across North America. The intentions expressed in...
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On Teaching and Learning
Diagrams by David Warlick A few of us from the #Tiegrad group met up on Sunday morning to talk about all sorts of things: project updates, questions, and frustrations, the nature of personalized...
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Blogs as Documents of Learning
Giulia Forsythe’s visual notes on Tracy Penny Light’s session on Documenting Student Learning with Electronic Portfolios. I started blogging with the TALONS class (since expanded to two) a little more...
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Citizenship Learning and the Project of Enlightenment
As part of my personal learning project in #TieGrad’s studies I’ve been guided in my efforts to frame my learning – as well as the intentionality of creating my classroom spaces – by delving into...
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This semester I’ve been using Google Forms to collect reflections, self-assessments and unit feedback from both the Philosophy 12 bunch, as well as the TALONS. As with many aggregating aspects of the...
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This year’s new Dylan: Design Thinking
Image by David Kernohan I’ve quoted D’Arcy Norman’s MSc thesis here before. However, newly immersed in the introductory strides of Design Thinking, courtesy of UVic and #TieGrad’s EDCI 335 course, I...
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Design Thinking as Critical Literacy
TALONS Kinetic Art w/ Jay Bundy Johnson “Design thinking asks students to become investigators in their world, attempt to solve problems, bridge gaps of knowledge independently, collaboratively, and...
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On 21st Century Schools
As I’ve explored at some length here, I think of schools today as guided by our mission statements and legal mandates to pursue an ageless ideal of education along the lines of how John Dewey...
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On Knowledge
It’s a great thing to receive invites like this one from Manitoba civics teacher extraordinaire Matt Henderson, and be prompted to a discussion of knowledge spanning two continents and including some...
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