List of Posts

• Cynthia Solomon: Computer Science Pioneer and Equity Champion
• Coding in the Spirit of Reconciliation: Your Voice is Power
• Entangled Pedagogy
• The Trickery of Insufficient Data
• I’m Excited About These Coding Books!
• Coding & Indigenous Ways of Knowing Mathematics
• Why Code Illusions?
• John Teaches the Turtle!
• Space Apps Hackathon!
• Nature, Math, Art and Spirals: Code Your Own!
• Coding? Now!? Who Cares?
• Dear Ontario Educators,
• Join us to celebrate Global Dignity Day 2018!
• Ontario Educators: Are We to Be Pawns?
• The Maker Movement: It’s about ‘making up’ your own mind
• Leveraging Technology to Develop Transferable Life Skills: Deep Learning
• Global Dignity Day: Help students understand ‘dignity’ through action
• ‘Limited Pedagogy’ in the Past? I Don’t Think So!
• I Was a Bad Teacher Today
• Let’s Not Start from Scratch: Some Early Research on ‘Coding’
• What is Deep Learning Anyway?
• Role of Technology in Classrooms
• Pedagogy before Technology: Not a New Thing
• Global Dignity Day 2016
• Remembering Seymour Papert in Ontario Education
• It IS about the Tools!
• The Design of Everyday Things: Think about your classroom culture
• Transformation: Maybe we are at the Tipping Point
• Organic System Environments for Shared Knowledge Construction
• Deep Learning: Philosophically Speaking 😉
• ‘Dignity’ – A Difficult Concept Made Easy
• What Do We Mean By Learning Anyway?
• Headline Madness: Myths & Misrepresentation!
• Learning Out Loud
• Curricularize Coding? Not a New Question!
• Neil Postman Had It Right—Back in the 80’s
• ‘Thinking about Thinking’ in 1989
• Students ‘Making Up’ Their Own Minds
• It’s NOT about the Tools? Really?
• I’ve Done a Total Turtle Trip!
• Teaching is a ‘Way of Being’ — Part 3
• Teaching is a ‘Way of Being’ — Part 2
• Teaching is a ‘Way of Being’ — Part 1
• Tools for Reflective Thinking: Children, Computers and Metacognition
• Knowledge Building: What is it Really?
• Graphic Organizers, Outliners and Transferable Thinking
• Coding for Kids for Dummies
• Belief Can Outrank Reality!
• The Butterfly Defect: Technology and the Wandering Mind
• Using Visible Thinking Strategies to Develop Expert Learners
• Global Dignity Day is almost here!
• ‘Making’ Does Not Equal ‘Constructionism’
• Project Based Learning: What if we didn’t start with a question?
• Hey teacher. Think you don’t have impact? Think again.
• What’s New? Innovative Technology Use for Inquiry?
• Turtle Art – am I a programmer or an artist…
• Visible Thinking – A View from the Past 🙂
• The Technium: Multiplexing vs Multitasking
• Should We Gamify Meditation? 😉
• Csikszentmihalyi worries! Should we?
• To Question IS the Answer!
• So You Want Kids to Code! Why?
• Another Brick in the Wall
• Metacognition: A ‘Way of Being’ in the Classroom
• Digital Literacy & Storytelling
• Submit a Dignity Day Story
• Join the Conversation on Global Dignity Day!
• Global Dignity Day 2013!
• The Science of Passion Based Learning
• The “Loafer Effect” and Project-Based Learning
• “A Vision” by the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association
• Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes | Video on TED.com
• Thanks to Facilitators for Excellent Minds On Media at ECOO12
• FOLLOW Global Dignity Day – Oct. 17th
• Global Dignity Day 2012 – Get Involved!
• Critical Thinking using “Skype in the Classroom”
• PBL? Am I Doing it Right?
• Envisioning the Future of Educational Technology
• You might look – but you may not see.
• John Seely Brown at PLP Live and #ECOO12
• “Instant America” – We are impatient!
• I’m Confused! Thought I was a Social Constructionist!
• “Thinking, Fast & Slow” – Wondering about implications for schools
• The Power of ‘Knowledge Sharing’: Tools to Do So
• Intentional Serendipity – “Getting to where ideas can find you”
• Intentional Serendipity – Unpacked!
• Question Authority – (6 of 6)
• Emotional Rescue (5 of 6)
• Post Gutenberg Parenthesis – (4 of 6)
• The Trickery of Temporary Truths (3 of 6)
• Limited, and Fooled, By Our Senses (2 of 6)
• Humankind is Both Art & Science (1 of 6)
• Co-creation Viewed Differently…
• Global Dignity Day – Express Guide!
• Join Global Dignity Day!
• Collaborative Projects: What Does It Mean to ‘Co-construct’?
• Reflective Cognition vs More Information: It’s a Choice!
• One 21st Century Skill Requires Another – ‘Mindfulness’
• OTF Teaching & Learning in 21st Century – July 2011
• Join Canada’s “Powerful Learning Practice”
• “It’s not about the tool” – a naïve myth.
• Computer Deployment – A Loss of the Locus of Control
• YMCA Academy’s Guiding Principles for Working with Youth
• Education or Subjugation – Power & Empowerment in Schools
• Intentional Serendipity
• The Importance of the ‘First Follower’
• Why do we think what we think?
• OTF’s Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century
• Why Should Students Collaborate?
• Overwhelmed – A Maze of Cognitive Turbulence
• The ‘Drip Effects’ of Technology
• We Make Mistakes and Don’t Even Know It
• More Regular Posting
• OTF and CUE present Google Workshop for Educators
• “Get Active Toronto” – Mayoral Town Hall
• When violence becomes entertaining…
• Educators Worth Following – ISTE10
• Papert: Not Just Logo!
• Blue dye plus water? Or blue water?
• Lessons of the Long Tail for Professional Learning
• Bricolage, Schools & the Internet
• Deep Understanding & the Issue of Transfer
• Scaffolding for Deep Understanding
• Minds Meeting Media – Students in Charge
• The Fallacy of 21st Century Skills
• The Wisdom of Experience Meets the Enthusiasm of Novices – Educon Reflection
• LDATD Presentation Links
• Can Students Multitask?
• Empowerment – Constructivism vs Instructivism
• ZPD – Who’s in Charge Here?
• PBL – Who IS in Charge? What Tools can Help?
• The Shoe Store Analogy
• The Backchannel: What Affects Its Efficacy?
• The Roger Waters Phenomenon
• PBL – the New Worksheet
• HIDDEN – a project that worked
• ECOO Reflections – Part ll
• Respecting the ‘Desire to Know’ – ECOO Reflections
• The ‘Backchannel’ – A Matter of Perspective
• The Construction Zone at the YMCA Academy