Monday, October 25, 2010

Peripheral Learning - outsourced tutoring

In an age where students able to acquire this type of peripheral learning with a few keystrokes, should we be pointing our students such a direction?  Check out the link below, and I would be interested to hear your comments..

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/technology/25iht-teach25.html?ref=education

Sunday, October 17, 2010

http://inquiry.sd42.ca/Inquiry_Project/Planning_files/Anchor_Rubric.pdf

Check out this excellent document on how to get started with 21st Century Skills from nearby Maple Ridge!

Great start. Haven't had a chance to go through it exclusively, but it looks pretty good at first blush.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

How can we improve our G-Portfolios?

We just saw Will Richardson in Chicago this past week at the 21st Century Learning Conference.  He makes some very good points in this article

http://www.edweek.org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01richardson.h04.html?cmp=clp-edweek&intc=es

especially the one about modelling by the administrator.  I have realized that I need to model this for our staff, and do a better job on my own g-portfolio. What are other people doing right now to work on their G-portfolio? 

If you have not heard this term before, don't feel bad, just read the article above!