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My Suicidal High School Years: A Happy-Ending Bullying Story
Scroll to bottom to listen to the podcast. [Update 3 August 2008: If you want a written version of the same story, I did my best here.] [Update 2: I've copied Stephen Downes' comments about this post,...
View ArticleOn Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher
More and more I wonder: is school a good place for teachers who want to make a difference in the lives of their students, and to the future of the world? Is there a way to leave the daily farce of...
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Beyond Global Collaborative “Units,” on to Real PLN’s: Podcast with Chris Craft
(right-click and “save as” to download the enhanced podcast here) Life as science fiction continues. Here in Korea on a Friday night, close to midnight, I hop onto Twitter, see Chris Craft is there in...
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“The Rumors of My Death…”
wrote Mark Twain, “have been greatly exaggerated.” True here as well, but only slightly. Autopsy The lines from Nick Cave’s song, “Hallelujah,” sum it up: My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb And my...
View ArticleBarbarians with Laptops: An Unreasonable Fear?
I expect to be soundly whipped for this post, but in this age of “failure being free,” I don’t mind. I hope to learn from teachers who can offer specific examples, or research, that give evidence that...
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Confucius on Teaching
Confucius and his students Not the most politically correct sentiment for our day, but still worth a share for its vision of what a student should — and can — be: Historians of religion consider Kongzi...
View ArticleBack into the Digital Breach: Help Me Out!
Maybe I need my head examined for the below, because figuring out how to do the schooliness and add a grade for so many types of assessment will be a bear, but I’m taking the plunge anyway. What...
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