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Monday, June 23, 2014
Hacking Education: A Mindset that Embraces Change
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This past spring trimester, Phillips Academy's Head of School John Palfrey taught a compelling course called "Hacking Andover; an E...
Friday, June 20, 2014
Curating, Highlighting, Outlining, or Plagiarizing an Article?
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For the first lesson in my GOA course, I just read a brilliant article by Jim Henry and Jeff Meadows, but the traditional essay layout with ...
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Dusting This Blog Off: Thoughts on Online Ed
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#489905205 / gettyimages.com Today I've watched two World Cup games while learning more about online platforms for education via Glob...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A Short Story Inspired by the Archetype of Fitzgerald's Golden Girl
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Today in class, we broke from the norm of analysis and discussion of The Great Gatsby . Students wrote a journal entry for posterity about a...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Why Write for the School Newspaper?
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Why? People will read your writing! WRA students reading The Reserve Record When I attended boarding school, I wrote for the weekly...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Teaching Social Media: ECHOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Today is our second to last meeting of TSM. I am eager and anxious to see what the three teams have been doing. A few examples for today...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Re-Imagine Education and Learning Communities
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" The map is not the territory " Alfred Korzybski Or is it? Yesterday a student let it slip that the epigraph in The Great Ga...
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