My principal, Ann, and I will often throw challenging statements into the conversation mix in the staffroom every now and then and wait for a bite. “I can see a future where handwriting is an irrelevant skill.” (This is guaranteed a rapid response with junior primary teachers who see that sentence as an attack on [...]
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Just so you know, any resemblance to any edublogger, highly or lowly Technorati ranked, is purely coincidental. This is just the urge I get after reading so many comic strips lately. Ahhh, I feel so much better now … I mean, I hope that this (ahem) helps some other edubloggers feel at peace with themselves [...]
If I had the time, talent and inclination, I reckon I’d love to be a comic strip artist. We’ve been looking at written humour in the classroom and analysing how much context and prior knowledge is needed in order for the humour in a comic strip to become obvious and theoretically, funny. In my searching [...]
Back in March, Doug Noon wrote about his free and voluntary classroom reading program. After trying to get my own literature circle program up and running late last year and still unsure of the best approach with this current bunch of students, his post painted a picture that I want for my classroom. This year, [...]
I reckon a skillfully constructed cartoon can say more than any blog post ever could. So, as Australian schools gear up for the annual NAPLAN tests, I couldn’t resist posting this gem from Savage Chickens. Good luck to all involved in this process. Let’s hope that standardised testing doesn’t mutate any further than its current [...]
My interest was captured by this reference from Stephen Downes to a Christoper Sessums’ post where Christopher related a fascinating tale about an intriguing twitter exchange with Don Tapscott. I’m not so much interested in the controversy of this 140 character word swap as the simple statement Don gave to Chris in one of his [...]
I really enjoyed our class camp last week to Hindmarsh Island, near Goolwa on the Fleurieu Peninsula. It was good to get to know my students some more in a different environment away from the classroom but I enjoyed the opportunity to step away from the lead teacher role and become an active learner for [...]
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