Saturday, December 31, 2005
Living where I do, I may be the last edublogger [see "Show 50 more markers"] to say goodbye to 2005. It occurs to me that I may get to be one of the last bloggers period on the internet in 2005. (There are reasons I call it Borderland.) I probably won’t get the absolute last [...]
Thursday, December 29, 2005
The Conceptual Region An interesting series of posts about about the social function teachers serve and the role of digital technology in schools has moved me to crawl out of hibernation today and resume blogging. Posts and commentaries listed below seem to define a problematic conceptual region for education bloggers. 2 Cents Worth: What’s it [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
“Vision controls our perception, and perception becomes our reality.” This is a quote from an excellent video that I recommend to anyone who is responsible for nurturing the development of other people. Dewitt Jones is a former National Geographic photographer who turned to writing and lecturing on the creative process. The video, Celebrate What’s Right [...]
Monday, December 19, 2005
In the case of someone looking at “trusted sources” honesty is one of the criteria for subjective claims, but is not necessary for objective claims, since we all presumably have access to the same information. I suppose the need for trust comes in when we for some reason need to verify an information source that is not immediately available to us. In the case of the “echo chamber” mentioned by Miguel which concerns adopting opinions within an insular social network, those would fall within the normative-evaluative realm, and are a question of values about how the world should work.
Monday, December 19, 2005
To me, reading is any act of interpretation. We can read the weather, read a river, read a face, or read a room full of people. Since interpretations of the same phenomenon can vary from person to person, we recognize that a range of meanings for any text is possible depending on one’s point of view.
Friday, December 16, 2005
My students’ attention to their reading is getting a little more fine-tuned, and I believe that’s because of the talking I’ve done about metacognition. I’ve focused heavily on metacognition lately.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
In an effort to gain some clarity for myself, I’m going to explore some of the issues that surround the models of education that we’ve been offered and maybe find a comfortable place to stand within the overall discourse. I found an entry point for this inquiry in a book chapter, “Whole Language Within a Broader Perspective” from Constance Weaver’s, Understanding Whole Language: From Principles to Practice.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
I don’t know how many people might already be reading Scott Adams blog, but since I haven’t read anything about it, I thought I’d mention it here since I’ve got nothing else coherent to say at the moment.
It’s interesting how some things don’t go away, but only change form. A chance encounter with a 14-year-old book chapter written by Patrick Shannon sounded hauntingly similar to another discussion that has recently emerged in ed-tech blogs and discussion forums on the internet.
Saturday, December 3, 2005
Speaking publicly with an authoritative voice about literacy is a little harder than just sitting down and freewheeling about the latest stray thought to cross my mind. I’ve gone back to some of the books I have on my shelf. I’m reading and re-reading things that I’d forgotten about.
