Madeline Brownstone
(mbrownstone)
New York City
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Blog Hopping! What a concept! Thank you Nancy Brodsky. Where will we go today? Let's start hopping through the blogosphere.
How to teach our children well is the quest we are all on by participating in the New York City Writing Project “Steal this Internet” Spring Technology Retreat. There is an underlying assumption that if we enter the exciting Web 2.0 world filled with such toys as Google Docs, del.icio.us, Bloglines, podcasting, wikis, blogs, and photo sharing tools like Flickr that we will use them, embrace them, and eventually integrate them into the classroom routines. There is so much to manage. As teachers we all need time out of time for our own growth–a kind of white space.
Sierra wrote: “[R]eal learning takes place between exposures to content! Long-term memory from learning happens after the training. The space between the lessons and practice is where the learning is made permanent. If we don’t leave that space, new content keeps rushing in to overwrite the previous content, before the learner’s brain has a chance to pause, reflect, and synthesize the proteins needed for long-term memory storage.”
There are implications here for school teachers like myself. I have tried to pack too much into my class periods, this I am guilty of. To restructure in order to find the places for the spaces is the challenge I continually face.
This afternoon I found myself with a small group of teachers and one former graduate who returned to hang out. We were relaxing eating lunch and swapping “war” stories about the first year of our school. We were laughing heartily and longing for the “good old days”—five years ago—when we had time to be together for learning, collaborating, and just plain enjoying each other’s company. Teachers need more “white space” in the day to enjoy each other’s company and also to digest the experiences of teaching.
How to teach our children well is the quest we are all on by participating in the New York City Writing Project “Steal this Internet” Spring Technology Retreat. There is an underlying assumption that if we enter the exciting Web 2.0 world filled with such toys as Google Docs, del.icio.us, Bloglines, podcasting, wikis, blogs, and photo sharing tools like Flickr that we will use them, embrace them, and eventually integrate them into the classroom routines. There is so much to manage. As teachers we all need time out of time for our own growth–a kind of white space.
Sierra wrote: “[R]eal learning takes place between exposures to content! Long-term memory from learning happens after the training. The space between the lessons and practice is where the learning is made permanent. If we don’t leave that space, new content keeps rushing in to overwrite the previous content, before the learner’s brain has a chance to pause, reflect, and synthesize the proteins needed for long-term memory storage.”
There are implications here for school teachers like myself. I have tried to pack too much into my class periods, this I am guilty of. To restructure in order to find the places for the spaces is the challenge I continually face.
This afternoon I found myself with a small group of teachers and one former graduate who returned to hang out. We were relaxing eating lunch and swapping “war” stories about the first year of our school. We were laughing heartily and longing for the “good old days”—five years ago—when we had time to be together for learning, collaborating, and just plain enjoying each other’s company. Teachers need more “white space” in the day to enjoy each other’s company and also to digest the experiences of teaching.
A trail of
31 pages
Starting a new thread here on the topic of collective intelligence. Mainly, I'm interested in understanding more about how to teach collaborative writing in a wiki.
This seems to be the mother ship of collective intelligence.
This seems to be the mother ship of collective intelligence.
A trail of
2 pages
A long video mashup of Disney clips explaining copyright laws and fair use
A trail of
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