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Terry Elliott

Doc Horse Tales: Why write? Because you love to. - 0 views

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doc horse tales

shared by Terry Elliott on 03 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Because you love to.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      We write more now -- on paper and digitally -- because we can. 
  • Humans “write” because it is our distinctive character
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      How old is our writing?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Aug 13
       
      5000 years?
  • “writing,” consider expanding the field of composition.
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  • mode, media, audience, purpose, and situation
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      I'm thinking of shared purpose here in connected learning - working in teams to create, revise, and share in  collaboration that ripples onward to others to remix. Is this notion of, "what will someone else do with this" an incentive to quantity? quality? community?
  • Let writing go to edge of consciousness. 
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      The edge - this could take time though, with writers struggling to think they can write. But finding the one gem in the work is important to build the confidence needed to become so is important.
  • write until we find this for ourselves, how can we expect it in our classroom?
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      As Terry Elliot says: https://vine.co/v/hbu6EJ3Vbe5
  • enthusiasm motivates
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      At least, do this for the kids. Those students who love to write may teach the teacher. :)
  • Can’t find time?  No easy solution here, but try buying yourself out
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      I laughed. I do this. Someone else takes care of the yard. :) Now I love gardening, but don't garden. My garden is of words blossoming into ideas and images and inspiration.
Åke Nygren

Webmaker Training: Teach the Web | Building | Concepts - 0 views

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connectedlearning building

shared by Åke Nygren on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Building on the Web
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • The Web is a massive, shifting repository of human knowledge. We should empower learners to engage this ecosystem and make the Web they want to use. Mozilla developed the Web Literacy Map to help you do just that.
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  • The Design Process
  • authentic assessments
  • experiential learning
  • In "Design Challenges" learners select a problem, conduct research with users, prototype a solution, give and receive feedback, and iterate to produce a final project.
  • Feedback is the glue of the Web
  • Constructive Criticism
  • Feedback is the basis for open source culture
  • Giving constructive criticism (and receiving it) is something that takes practice. We adhere to “if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all” because we don't believe that our opinions are necessary. We forget that criticism doesn't have to lead to complete redesign or reformulation.
  • delivering feedback
  • We also tend to spend time focusing on our own things, rather than looking at other people's ideas and thinking about making them better.
  • We ask for feedback and expect to get some, but we rarely give our feedback freely – we wait until our specific feedback is requested or until the work directly affects our own. We all know how fantastic it is to get good, constructive feedback on something we're working on. What if we all took more time to give feedback like that to others? What would happen?
  • the Web is, by its nature, collaborative
  • the power of the open Web comes from our ability to share. In the learning experiences we design, when we create spaces to share our work with each other, we model the way the Web works. These complex social spaces encourage freedom of expression and honesty.
  • Collaboration builds empathy
midmarketplace_

The Edge of the Real: Fragmented Boundaries - Leading Questions - 0 views

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tweets edge leading questions a1 how to innovation value content ideas

shared by midmarketplace_ on 19 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • midmarketplace_ on 19 Mar 15
     
    "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go. To right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star - no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest. And the world will be better for this, that one man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage. To reach the unreachable star. The Impossible Dream - Mike Leigh Man of La Mancha" The Edge of the Real: Fragmented Boundaries - Seeking Wholeness of our Mind, Body and Spirit. http://t.co/G41FssvMUA
Terry Elliott

Penn & Teller's Teller on How to Be an Effective Teacher - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 25 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Jan 16
       
      passion as prelude make?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Jan 16
       
      Make?
  • the teacher has a duty to engage, to create romance that can transform apathy into interest, and, if a teacher does her job well, a sort of transference of enthusiasm from teacher to student takes place.
  • “If you don’t have both astonishment and content, you have either a technical exercise or you have a lecture.”
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  • Teller’s educational philosophy is rooted in the philosopher A.N. Whitehead’s “rhythm of education,” a theory that asserts learning happens in three stages: romance, precision, and generalization.
  • Romance, argued Teller, precedes all else.
  • What I have, however, is delight. I get excited about things. That is at the root of what you want out of a teacher; a delight in what the subject is, in the operation. That’s what affects students.”
  • It’s easy to disregard the entertainment of your students as pandering, but it’s not, Teller stressed, citing Frances Ferguson’s The Idea of a Theater: The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective. “In the art that lasts, there’s always a balance: purpose that is action, passion that is feelings, and perception that is intellectual content. In Shakespeare, for example, there is always a level that is just action, showbiz. There is always a level that's strongly passionate, and there’s always a level that’s got intellectual content.”
  • Learning, like magic, should make people uncomfortable, because neither are passive acts. Elaborating on the analogy, he continued, “Magic doesn’t wash over you like a gentle, reassuring lullaby. In magic, what you see comes into conflict with what you know, and that discomfort creates a kind of energy and a spark that is extremely exciting. That level of participation that magic brings from you by making you uncomfortable is a very good thing.”
  • When I go outside at night and look up at the stars, the feeling that I get is not comfort. The feeling that I get is a kind of delicious discomfort at knowing that there is so much out there that I do not understand and the joy in recognizing that there is enormous mystery, which is not a comfortable thing. This, I think, is the principal gift of education.
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