So, I’ve been thinking a lot about the article in The New York Times from February 23rd: ”True Innovation“. Jon Gertner is the author of a forthcoming book about Bell Labs called The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation and this was a kind of preview. There was plenty of detail [...]
Posts Tagged ‘connection’
Bell Labs and School
Posted: March 9, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: change, collaboration, connection, discovery, experiment, inspiration, room design
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#5thchat to the Rescue
Posted: December 11, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: #5thchat, collaboration, connection, conversation, twitter
So, I wasn’t thinking about having a super interesting evening when I got home from school on Tuesday. Honestly, I had a frustrating day and might have been ready to wallow in it, just a little. I figured I wouldn’t participate in #5thchat on Twitter because I just wasn’t in the mood. (If you are [...]
Conversations Update
Posted: November 28, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: connection, conversation, update
So, I’ve been thinking more about having more individual conversations with my students. And so I told them. This morning I was updating my class on a few things at the beginning of the day, typical stuff. I also explained, like I did in my last post, that I had so enjoyed talking with a [...]
We’re busting out of this town!
Posted: September 29, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: community, connection, global read aloud, language arts
So, I’ve been wanting to get my students participating in learning with other students outside our school walls. Last year students had individual blogs and we worked on a little this and that. This year I am once again committing myself, and my class by extension, to more outside-our-walls experiences. One of the first things [...]
