100 Day Project – Day 57 – 8:45 p.m. “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn.” Herbert A. Simon (One of the founders of the field of Cognitive Science and [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 56 – 10:16 p.m. “Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.” Mr. Rogers Indeed it is. But, it’s an illusion worth keeping. Today I’m thinking that life is full, life is complicated, life is complicated, life leaves me [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 55 – 9:26 p.m. A quote from an email a colleague sent me today as a result of her visiting one of my classes during Open Classroom Week (a week where faculty volunteer to open their classes to other faculty and staff to visit and also to visit other classrooms [...]
100 Day Project – Day 54 – 9:00 pm Today was Advising Day at the community college where I work – a day to sit with your Advisor (for those students who choose to, of course), and talk about your goals, where your studies are going, how they are going, what you want to be [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 53 – 10:14 pm “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society…but for me, education means making creators…you have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.” Jean Piaget I’ve just purchased the newly published Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson (although [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 52 – 9:16 pm I’m sure no one else but me is counting or cares; but if a reader is interested, I know very well that Day 52 had almost a week between it and Day 51! I can blame the crazy October snow storm for a day or two; [...]
100 Day Project – Day 51 – 2:09 p.m. SNOW – a big snow storm in October! A snow day today! There’s much to say about the craziness of it, the no electricity, have fun talking and cleaning odd things and doing other chores that require no electricity, and hot cocoa on the sterno! But [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 50 – 10:01 pm Here’s the dictionary definition of “joy:” joy [joi] noun 1. the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son’s success. 2. a source or cause of keen pleasure or delight; something [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 49 – 8:32 pm A few thoughts and moments occurred today that I’m thinking must be related somehow. In one of my Education courses, the students were exploring the printing with various objects (process vs product) in creative experiences. The topic came up of whether food should be used in [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 50 – Access, yet again
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Important People, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 50 – 9:12 am The President of my college and work place says it eloquently on my behalf today: Access remains the foundation of community colleges : Commentary by President Robert Pura
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