100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared […]
Entries from October 13th, 2011
100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs
October 13th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning
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100 Day Project – Day 37 – Mark Twain
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity. – The Prince and the Pauper Supposing is good, but finding out is better. – Mark Twain in Eruption; Mark Twain’s Autobiography That’s all I have to say today. It’s been a day of deep learning, excitement over the transformation that learning brings, and the […]
100 Day Project – Day 36 – Regurgitate
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55 (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed […]
100 Day Project – Day 35 – Einstein
October 10th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Books, Important People, Musings, Reading
100 Day Project – Day 35 – 9:20 p.m. Yes, that is right. Today I’m thinking about Einstein. I’m reading his biography. I really enjoy biographies. It’s a really great way to learn so much about a lot of things; not just the person the book is written about. Of course, this assumes, a well-written […]
100 Day Project – Day 34 – Gratefulness
October 9th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Musings, Quote of the Week, Work
100 Day Project – Day 34 – 8:10 p.m. ‘There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.’ Frederico Fellini Film Director A beautiful day today — glorious sun, a not so glorious autumn color due to so much rain, good smells and too much food at the […]
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