JOURNAL TOPIC: ["Foolin" by Def Leppard; "The Fool On the Hill" by The Beatles; "What Kind Of Fool Am I" by Marvin Gaye]
Kind of sad that April Fool's Day falls on a weekend this year and we can't take full advantage. Nevertheless, it makes me think of the surprises in life that require us to think and act in order figure something out. During last week's Socratic seminars many of you talked about how we learn best when there is no safety net and we are confronted with a problem or an opportunity. Describe such an event in your life (whether you were fooled or doing the fooling). ***Relate this to a character in any one of the literature analysis books you've read this year.
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Writer's conferences
3. Grammar self-assessment
HW:
1. Finish ALL outstanding work and make sure your blog is up date. Come Monday there will be no looking back.
2. Evaluate your peers' mindmaps and videos. Review at least 10 blogs from the Member Blogs page and list the top three (with links) in a post on your blog.
3. Familiarize yourself with Shakespeare's Macbeth by perusing the following websites. Take notes. Quiz Monday (4.1)
site 1
site 2
site 3
site 4
site 5
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
March 29
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Universal Hall" by The Waterboys; "At the Library" by Green Day; "I Am the Sub Librarian" by Piano Magic]
Thinking about this morning's conference made me think about the libraries in my life. I remember grabbing way more books than I could check out when I was a kid. I remember the Bookmobile. I remember taking the AP English exam (!) in my HS library. I remember gawking at UCLA's Powell Library and feeling awed and a little intimidated. And I remember my favorite library of them all, the Long Room at Dublin's Trinity College. What are your memories of libraries, and how do you use libraries (at school or elsewhere) now?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Writer's conferences (as time permits)
3. Online conference
HW:
Finish youtube vid due on your blog tomorrow, and figure out how to share your mind map if you haven't already done so.
Thinking about this morning's conference made me think about the libraries in my life. I remember grabbing way more books than I could check out when I was a kid. I remember the Bookmobile. I remember taking the AP English exam (!) in my HS library. I remember gawking at UCLA's Powell Library and feeling awed and a little intimidated. And I remember my favorite library of them all, the Long Room at Dublin's Trinity College. What are your memories of libraries, and how do you use libraries (at school or elsewhere) now?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Writer's conferences (as time permits)
3. Online conference
HW:
Finish youtube vid due on your blog tomorrow, and figure out how to share your mind map if you haven't already done so.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
online conference tomorrow
We have been invited to participate in an online conference about participatory learning with Buffy Hamilton, the "Unquiet Librarian" (her blog here).
Following is the announcement for the event (copied/pasted from Buffy's blog), which has been organized and promoted by the Digital Media & Learning Hub at UC Irvine. Please comment to this post with any questions or ideas. Because of the short notice, I'm not able to extend invitations for you to get out of other classes, but I'm happy to welcome anyone who gets permission from those amazing, kind, flexible teachers who don't mind.
What and When
Join us this Thursday at 10AM PST/1PM EST for a conversation about participatory learning and libraries at Connected Learning! We’ll be exploring how libraries can cultivate sites of participatory learning to disrupt what Paulo Freire calls the “banking system” of education; we’ll also discuss how to negotiate the tensions that can exist in participatory sites of culture. Full details of how to participate in this week’s conversation are available here! Be sure to check out the archives of previous webinars with Mimi Ito and Mitch Resnick here.
About Connected Learning
The Digital Media & Learning Research Hub is a non-profit research organization that nurtures exploration of—and builds evidence around—the impact of digital media on young peopleʼs learning and its potential for transforming education. We support emerging research on digital media and learning by hosting international conferences, facilitating workshops and working groups, and bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders and others working on related projects. The DML Research Hub is based at UC Irvine as part of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and is supported by the MacArthur Foundation as part of Macarthur’s broader Digital Media and Learning Initiative.
NOTE: Since this mentions Freire I thought you should have some background-- more after the jump (skim it, but at least read the description of the BANKING MODEL and consider how our work disrupts it in a positive way).
Following is the announcement for the event (copied/pasted from Buffy's blog), which has been organized and promoted by the Digital Media & Learning Hub at UC Irvine. Please comment to this post with any questions or ideas. Because of the short notice, I'm not able to extend invitations for you to get out of other classes, but I'm happy to welcome anyone who gets permission from those amazing, kind, flexible teachers who don't mind.
What and When
Join us this Thursday at 10AM PST/1PM EST for a conversation about participatory learning and libraries at Connected Learning! We’ll be exploring how libraries can cultivate sites of participatory learning to disrupt what Paulo Freire calls the “banking system” of education; we’ll also discuss how to negotiate the tensions that can exist in participatory sites of culture. Full details of how to participate in this week’s conversation are available here! Be sure to check out the archives of previous webinars with Mimi Ito and Mitch Resnick here.
About Connected Learning
The Digital Media & Learning Research Hub is a non-profit research organization that nurtures exploration of—and builds evidence around—the impact of digital media on young peopleʼs learning and its potential for transforming education. We support emerging research on digital media and learning by hosting international conferences, facilitating workshops and working groups, and bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders and others working on related projects. The DML Research Hub is based at UC Irvine as part of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and is supported by the MacArthur Foundation as part of Macarthur’s broader Digital Media and Learning Initiative.
NOTE: Since this mentions Freire I thought you should have some background-- more after the jump (skim it, but at least read the description of the BANKING MODEL and consider how our work disrupts it in a positive way).
March 28
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Money Song" by Monty Python; "Money (Dollar Bill)" [slightly edited] by Everlast; "Money" by Pink Floyd]
Money. What does it symbolize to you? Why does its presence/absence create so much stress for so many people? Does learning have worth that can't be quantified or deposited in a bank account?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. AP Exam list
3. Discussion of yesterday's HW
4. Peer-to-peer learning: mindmaps & youtube vids w/ soundtrack
5. Writer's conferences
HW:
1. Remix your last LA into a one-minute video with a soundtrack (due Friday, 3.30)
Money. What does it symbolize to you? Why does its presence/absence create so much stress for so many people? Does learning have worth that can't be quantified or deposited in a bank account?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. AP Exam list
3. Discussion of yesterday's HW
4. Peer-to-peer learning: mindmaps & youtube vids w/ soundtrack
5. Writer's conferences
HW:
1. Remix your last LA into a one-minute video with a soundtrack (due Friday, 3.30)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
March 27
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Help Me" by Joni Mitchell; "With a Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles/performed by Joe Cocker; "Help!" by The Beatles]
'Tis the season. Who's taking the AP exam? You? Your partner? Friends/neighbors? How can you help someone prepare and succeed? How can someone else help you? Visualize the morning of the AP exam: as you walk out of the test and smile the smile of a difficult job finished and well done, who will you be able to thank, and for what?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Essays: peer editing & feedback
HW:
1. Congratulations to everyone on your scholarships and acceptances, and caveat emptor; read this article and comment to this post with your reactions.
'Tis the season. Who's taking the AP exam? You? Your partner? Friends/neighbors? How can you help someone prepare and succeed? How can someone else help you? Visualize the morning of the AP exam: as you walk out of the test and smile the smile of a difficult job finished and well done, who will you be able to thank, and for what?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Essays: peer editing & feedback
HW:
1. Congratulations to everyone on your scholarships and acceptances, and caveat emptor; read this article and comment to this post with your reactions.
Monday, March 26, 2012
March 26
[Today's classroom experience is intensely personal and not for online/public consumption. If you miss class today please consult your partner. If you still have questions I'm available to answer them.]
JOURNAL TOPIC: mindfulness/choose your own
AGENDA:
JOURNAL TOPIC: mindfulness/choose your own
AGENDA:
Friday, March 23, 2012
poetry by the numbers
During yesterday's Socratic seminar in period 4, I watched as students effectively analyzed ee cummings' poem and discussed how they specifically avoided the AP rubric because it "ruined" the poem for them. The conversation reminded me of the following scene from "Dead Poets Society."
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