by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
Teamwork is powerful. Working with others to achieve a common goal is such an invigorating experience. In education, it’s what we do for kids. Collaborative inquiry into how best to help students learn brings meaning to our profession. Back when my son was building his cycling career and he got his first really big win, […]
Update: Do you want to help save the Ontario Ranger Program? This program is key to giving our youth the opportunity to work as a team, to become strong, to build skills in collaboration and to become a resilient and focused member of our society. Check out the action plan here: http://www.savetherangers.ca/ Were you an Ontario […]
One of my favourite parts of #etMOOC was our time exploring open learning. @cogdog (Alan Levine) collects stories of open learning and sharing here. It is a concept I am committed to, and my own personal stories of open sharing are dear to me. Sharing can be hard, though. We need courage to share. Depending […]
How do you get more pleasure in your life? According to cognitive psychologist Paul Bloom, the answer is to study more (I don’t think even Dan Pink came up with this one as a motivator!). Seriously, to appreciate and truly derive pleasure from so many things in life, you need to understand them, says Bloom […]
I am a scatterbrain today. I am excited about all the the reading I am doing but I can’t pull it all together at this point. I am exploring three things right now. 1) We don’t know what we don’t know, so how do we direct our own learning? This thinking is a product of […]
