What is Curriculum?
I have been in education for ten years, and I haven’t thought enough about that question. I’m now in the second week of the course, “Curriculum Theory” in my JHU-ISTE program, and we’ve started wrestling with some tough questions about curriculum. The first being the title for this post. What is curriculum? It seems the […]
An Educational Philosophy
I am required to write my educational philosophy for the administrative program I am currently enrolled in. This exercise has proved itself quite a bit more challenging than I anticipated. I’ve done this before, years ago, when I completed both my undergraduate and first graduate programs. Things have changed since then. I’ve changed since then. […]
Who Do We Belong To?
I have to establish from the outset, I’m not yet determined in my thinking on this topic. I’m also not sure that the conversation will get us any further than what Mr. Jakes likes to call a “taffy pull.” But it might. Might not, either. We’ll see. Many of us are moving in and out […]
The Best About Me Page You’ll Ever See
I simply don’t believe you will find a better About Me page than the one found here. The page belongs to Aaron Iba, the now former CEO of AppJet, the company who created EtherPad. Iba’s product was acquired by Google for a reported $10 million, and I would imagine he is quite happy with the […]
Our Ideas are Interactive
I read a great post by a student in my grad class last week that has me thinking again about the idea of a backchannel. I wrote about this a while ago, but it seems the topic has surfaced again recently about the value of a backchannel. The past several conferences I have attended have […]