PONderings

I found the interchange of ideas on Dean’s post on Blog Rage most interesting. It occurred to me, as I engage in this blogging experience, that I’m not at all certain what my voice should be online, that I’m venturing into a forum where my online persona may be very different than my own. This, [...]

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My collaborating partner, Rick, his Grade 8 class, and I had a stimulating discussion on the purpose of the Think Tank.
As per my previous posts, we have a microscope station, eight Mac computers, television hooked up to cable, Math manipulatives, and chess boards. After discussion with our students, we lack support for all of the [...]

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Thank you to Jean for submitting a name for our project room:
The Think Tank.
It’s our favourite so far!

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We need your help!
The school is creating a space out of our former computer lab to support differentiated instruction and multiple intelligences. Its purpose is to provide an area in which single or multiple classes can set up for longer term projects. We hope to provide learning opportunities in the multiple intelligences; one such example [...]

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As a closet science-fiction aficionado, I’ll respond to the metaphor contained in Rob’s response to my first post.
The metaphor of the mission of Jedi Knights, particularly of master Jedis such as my green-skinned wrinkled Yoda, refers to maintaining harmony through the universe. Not a bad ambition, is it? It is true that two characteristics related [...]

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Arthur Slade, an award-winning Saskatchewan author, gave our teacher-librarians and Grades 3-7 teachers an engaging presentation on boys and reading.
Among his recommendations were books based on video games such as the Halo series, SIBYLs (Songs inspired by literature), podcasting, and YouTube. I found reflections contained in Art’s blog to be very enlightening.For a copy of [...]

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