100 Day Project – Day 60 – 7:18 pm The first day of class they were shy. The first day of class they said, almost in unison, oh no, not me: I’m not going to sing, dance, and play an elephant in front of my peers! What do you want us to do? No way! […]
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100 Day Project – Day 60 – Transformation and Elephants
November 17th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Teaching & Learning, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 54 – Pull up a chair
November 8th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Important People, Musings, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning
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 – Innovators
November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Books, Children, College students, Education, Important People, Quote of the Week, Reading
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 50 – Joy
October 27th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Musings, Teaching & Learning
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 – access and equity
October 25th, 2011 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, family, Musings, Teaching & Learning, Work
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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