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Posts tagged learning

Getting Back Into Art

In 2023, I tried my hand at watercolor painting and sketching in general. Then, in 2024 I just...stopped. No real reason why other than I didn't ma... Read more

Thinking More About SBG

We're finishing our first month of school and I'm thinking a lot about my grading system. I use standards-based grading, which boils down to the ma... Read more

Some Recent Arting

I needed an unplugged activity to bring some non-technical creative balance to my life. I decided that sketching and watercolors were what I wanted... Read more

Goals, 10 Years Later

I took the long-tail approach to my master's degree - ten years later, this is a look back at my initial goals and a reflection on my professional ... Read more

A Manifesto for Online Learning

Online spaces are, by default, open spaces The World Wide Web was created with open spaces in mind. It allowed anyone, anywhere to publish and see ... Read more

Small Community is Good Community

Community is on my mind today and I think it's because of three different, but related, experiences I've had in the last couple of days. I'm readin... Read more

Down With the Sickness - Weeknotes for 2023-01-30

Interesting reads The hidden purple memorial in your browser - reddit link, the full backstory Dr. TJ Kendon - on what appears to be a new blog - h... Read more

Conditioning and Learning

I don't think there's a question in my mind about the stages we go through as we learn new things. Much learning seems to be rooted in habits and r... Read more

This Was Written with Helix

I'm writing this blog post using Helx. This is the first time I've really committed to using a terminal-based text editor, focusing on keyboard com... Read more

Three Problems with Online Teaching

We started our school year today. We have a split group of teachers who are fully online and a group who is hybrid, two days in school and three da... Read more

Grace Hopper Models a Billionth

This is worth watching. When we're describing principles to students - especially concrete thinkers - modeling and finding concrete examples of abs... Read more

I Took a Deep Breath and Contributed to an Open Source Project

I've been playing around with building websites and self-teaching myself (is that redundant?) web development languages. I feel like I've crossed s... Read more

Lesson Idea: Learning Objectives

Jessica Till asks a good question on Twitter: [embed]https://twitter.com/JessicaTilli1/status/1044423084529389568[/embed] and Graham's response sto... Read more

Language

The language I use around grading is very specific, especially when I’m speaking with students. “Your grade is based on how much you learn. You mus... Read more

Growing Pains

This is a repost of an article I wrote for Brett Clark’s 12 Days of Dreaming series. f you have kids, know people with kids, or work with kids, you... Read more

Progress is an Option

Before I begin, I want you to know that this post began as one thought, turned into a second, and by the end, had gone through a third, fourth, and... Read more

What Makes Me a Great Teacher?

Ok, so the title is a little self-indulgent, but don’t judge me just yet. I was thinking back about student teaching earlier this week and how my c... Read more

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