Cory Plough's Blog (4)

[Cross posted at The Next Step]

Schools often like to say that one of their major educational goals is to create lifelong learners in their students. It's an interesting goal to have considering so many teachers stop learning somewhere along the way. If teachers have stopped educating themselves, can they still ask their students to become life long learners? Teaching isn't… Continue

cross posted at The Next Step

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Something has been really bothering me lately. I'm taking a college course called Introduction to the Internet for Educators. When I first…

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I’m perusing a book called The Advisory Guide to help me get a better understanding of a program we are implementing at our online school next year. In the book the author refers to a story that goes something like this:



In a conflict resolution workshop the coordinator gives the group of teachers prompts and has them identify words that… Continue

A thought provoking video.

http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com