Last July I made a personally difficult, professional decision and chose to resign from my position as Canyons School District’s Director of Education Technology. After nearly twenty years working in the communities of others, I felt it was important for me to begin working with the schools that my own children attend, to try to …
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Increased Perspective on Vulnerability
Stephen Downes continues the Learning Is Vulnerability discussion by agreeing with much I’ve written, stopping just short of the “eating is vulnerability” comparison I chose to include. Draper writes, “Learning is no more vulnerability than eating might be.” Quite so. But every time we eat, we are vulnerable. Not ‘vulnerable’ in the sense-of-community kumbaya sense. …
The (Im)Perfect Human Side of Blogging
I love this post by Dean Shareski, but not for the reasons you might think. What begins as a somewhat rushed (?) rant about the digital divide becomes clarified in the comments, and eventually solidifies into a strong argument against our common language habits associated “the achievement gap.” I love that the post is imperfect, …