Yesterday my wife and I did something we haven’t done in quite a long time – we attended a church service. One of the...
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A few weeks ago I was asked to lead a full-day workshop on inquiry as part of an annual retreat for Delta principals and vice-principals. The day before the event one of the event organizers Aaron Akune and I got talking about Twitter backchannels, something I’ve used as a participant, but not as a...
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been involved in facilitating a 5 part math-lesson study. This exciting event involves 22 local math teachers working through open-ended math problems first as learners themselves and then with their students. There’s been some great discussion so a...
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“Unless teachers have opportunities to develop their own understanding of the richly webbed core concepts and modes of inquiry in the fields they teach, they are not likely to perceive their goals in such terms. Few schools make such opportunities a priority for their...
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Just I finally finished all the revisions on my thesis. So nice to get that done. It’s called “Caught in the rush of the news: the young, the old...
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This post is an excerpt from my recent Master’s Thesis entitled: “Caught in the rush of the news: the young, the old and the promise of educational technology” As...
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Tomorrow I’m giving a short talk to 400 student teachers at the University of Calgary. When it came time to gather advice – I decided to outsource the heavy...
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This post is part of the “Implementing Inquiry Based Learning” series. Authenticity: Adapted from the Inquiry Rubric created by the Galileo Educational Network Authenticity includes tasks, activity or work...
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I’m currently working on a ‘field guide to inquiry’. My goal is to create a document (that is somewhat concise and practical) that can assist teachers as they begin...
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…. what might happen if we approached curriculum topics as abundant, or alive, unfinished conversations with space to ‘become?’ How might schooling look differently if we approached learning as the...
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Today I was asked to give a free webinar on Inquiry and Social Studies. If you like you can listen to the recording here. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this...
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Experience: “The truth of experience always implies an orientation toward new experiences. That is why a person who is called experienced has become so not only...
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Recently Dan McGuire left an interesting comment on this blog – a comment that sparked a number of thoughts for me. I thought I’d write a response rather than...
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