I had the opportunity to have dinner this evening with Deneen Frazier Bowen – in town to kick off our district’s opening day PD – and Bryan Facey, our district’s Technology Supervisor. Of course, with the three of us at the table the conversation centered around what we all saw as the challenges and opportunities [...]
Entries from August 28, 2007
Cranking it up…
August 28, 2007 · No Comments · Education, technology
While most other jurisdictions, especially in our neighbors to the south, have been back at school for a couple of weeks now, this week marks the first week for most teachers in New Brunswick as we prepare for the return of students next week. As part of that process, teachers have time to work in [...]
Why are we chopping off their limbs?
August 27, 2007 · No Comments · Education, technology
This mornings newspaper brings yet another story of a school administration trying to steer student behavior through regulation, as yet another local high school moves to ban cell phones and mp3 players completely on school premises. Now I don’t pretend to have all – or even any – of the answers to the challenges created [...]
L&L21C – Day 2
August 17, 2007 · No Comments · Conferences, Education, technology
It’s nice to sleep in my own bed at one of the conferences. After a wonderful meal and even more wonderful conversations with David Warlick, Sharon Peters and Vince Jansen from LEARN Quebec, Tim Discipio from ePals, Mary-Jo MacRae from our DOE and several other teachers, I was pretty wiped after day one of the Literacy [...]
L21C II – David’s Keynote
August 16, 2007 · No Comments · Conferences, Education, flat class, technology
– live blogged — ongoing update Opening with a made in New Brunswick version of Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know“… David’s son Martin’s is celebrating his birthday today…he had us all wish Martin a happy birthday…in both English and French… The old story about education is that the old (current?) classroom was perfectly designed…for an industrial [...]
L&L21C II Underway!
August 16, 2007 · No Comments · Conferences, Education, flat class, technology
The second Literacy and Learning in the 21st Century conference is underway here in Fredericton. I picked David Warlick up at the airport this morning…he’s just getting set to deliver his opening day keynote…. This is so exciting for our teachers…the word of David’s appearance in March quickly spread…and the buzz is wonderful….more to come! [...]
Writing in 3-D
August 7, 2007 · 1 Comment · Education, flat class, technology
I’m not very good a sitting around feeling unproductive so I was fortunate to land some work with our Department of Education this summer. Lately I’ve been doing a bit of writing preparing some resource pages for a new Innovative Learning Fund that teachers can access (that’s a whole other post!) One of the things [...]
Power on the Air…
August 6, 2007 · No Comments · Education, technology
I must admit that I was kind of worried as I boarded the flight from Toronto to Winnipeg this afternoon. My laptop battery was getting low – only 25 minutes on the indicator, a 2 ½ hour flight ahead and at least that much work. I was already late and had some presentations to prepare [...]
Kudos to Air Canada…again.
August 6, 2007 · 1 Comment · Education, technology
I don’t seem to be having much luck with flights lately. After missing three flights and arriving in Atlanta eight hours late for NECC in June, here I sit at Fredericton Airport, again delayed. This time my flight to Montreal for a connection to Winnipeg is delayed for three hours. Last time it was mechanical [...]
Teaching an old dog…
August 6, 2007 · No Comments · Education, flat class, technology
My wife continues to amaze me. When we met several years ago I would not have defined her as a luddite, but she certainly wasn’t playing on a digital field. Slowly, but surely, she has immigrated over the digital divide and, last year, she purchased her very own MacBook, which she treasures immensely. A case in point. [...]
