October 2008
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Reflections
No Guts, No Glory
Before I go into writing about the Hiroshima trip (which I’ll probably do on another blog and 90% in Japanese anyways), I will say.
No Guts, No Glory.
Seriously.
Keeping an eye on my Hiroshima students?
Big Check.
Supporting student problems in Takayama?
Check.
Helping with server install by phone?
Check.
Not stressed out?
BIGGEST Check.
This trip was a joy to administer and work on.
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General
Project Hiroshima 2008
To all my allies & enemies, colleagues & friends, I present to you Project Hiroshima 2008.
It’s viewable here… http://yishiroshima2008.prostudent.net.
The goal of the project is to produce enough material to eventually make a book of the things the students experience during the trip.
Their assignment has been to microblog and take pictures as much as possible.
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General
How I Learned a Whole Lot of Everything And Ended Up Not Being Able To Verbalize It Very Well
Learning 2.008.
Three solid days of solid information inundation.
It was the first time in two years I got that experience, the last time being when I was still in college, still trying to get grades for game theory (boy, I bombed that one) and postwar Japanese history (slept through half the final, pulled out a 3.8).
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Reflections
The Most Powerful Question in Education
“How will X improve student learning?”
It really is.
The most powerful question in education, through and through.
Recently, I got this version.
“How will the experiences of Learning 2.008 improve student learning?”
The sad part is, I can’t answer it.
Not in terms of technology.
Not in terms of systems.
Not in terms of widgets and goodies.
Actually, I do have an answer.
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Cognitive Dissonance
Are There Really 21st Century Skills?
So I ask you, are there really 21st Century skills or are they really just the same skills we’ve had for hundreds of years reapplied and put on a diet of steroids/HGH/high-fructose corn syrup?
Jonathan Medina’s Brain Rules is a great read I just finished and the biggest message I got out of it was… What [...]
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