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A Rash of Ravishing Student Blog Posts
Saturday March 6th The class’ blog feed swelled this weekend with a range of posts (and comments) on everything from our city buses, to the recent Olympics, to novel study reflections and in-depth...
View ArticleFive TED Talks I watched during Spring Break
I told one of my friends’ parents about TED about a year and a half ago, and have since heard him tell various groups of people that “if you participate in no other mental exercise during the course of...
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This American Life
Sitting down to recast an updated listing of the RSS feeds, Twitter favourites, and podcasts I make a habit of perusing on a daily \ weekly \ monthly basis, I would be remiss to not isolate one of...
View ArticleKAPOW: Sir Ken Robinson Blows Donya’s Mind
After watching Sir Ken Robinson‘s latest incarnation as the subject of an RSA Animation, Donya was compelled to commit herself to bringing about an education revolution: I believe this is what I want...
View ArticleThe Silver Bullet in Teaching Mathematics: Computers
How many other subjects are deserving of this same heat, though: Just because paper was invented before computers, doesn’t mean that you get more to the basics of a subject by using paper instead of a...
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British Columbian Student Bloggers without Borders
That time of year again In response to Chris Kennedy‘s recent post of British Columbian edu-bloggers, and in the spirit of referring my fellow bloggers (and blog-readers) to the people that I read, I...
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Participants in the Age of Information
Jonathan's political cartoon This week semester two began with the class’ study of Manitoba’s Red River Rebellion, Louis Riel, and the explosion of Egypt’s political upheaval. On the edge of a new...
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Sharing in whim
I know teachers tend to throw out mixed messages, “Be open, share. Be careful, be scared.” This could be an authentic real world experience to create something beautiful with a larger group of people...
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Conversations I’m following
Photo from Al Jazeera English on Flickr As the Talons class moves forward with its discussion of ongoing media coverage and context behind recent events in Egypt and across the Middle East, the...
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Wise words
Captured by Jenna “Do you believe in something beautiful? Then get up and be it.” Ted Leo Kelly is on to something in the second draft of her This I Believe essay: A character, even if it is based off...
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