This is a reply to an email request that I received. Our grant administrator wants to send a group of teachers to Constructing Modern Knowledge but wanted to know a bit more about it. Could I tell her? she asked. Hi Faith, I really enjoyed Constructing Modern Knowledge last year. First – it’s tiny. There…
Category: Professional Development
You Never Can Tell With Bees…
When I prepared to spend the week at Mansfield College talking about Shakespeare in history, I hadn’t really thought too much about Edward Bear, also known as Winnie the Pooh. I love Pooh. The A. A. Milne stories have been favorites of mine as a child, as a parent and as a teacher. Milne’s poetry…
What’s cookin’
Over the past few days a new way of thinking about my classroom has emerged for me. I have been thinking about how to be a co-student in my classroom, mentoring and learning along side the rest of the people in the room. After my week at Constructing Modern Knowledge (CMK10) I want so much…
Worcester College Library – Can I Stay?
By far the greatest geek pleasure afforded to me in Oxford was our field trip to the Worcester College Library. The Worcester library is not huge like the Bodleian but it has a treasures, real treasures. We we not allowed to take photos, but let me explain what we were able to see. Drawings After…
Learning about Learning
I have really had an exceptional summer of professional development. If there is a theme in the disparate experiences of this last month it is my attempt to understand HOW we learn things and how I can be a better teacher. Beginning at Constructing Modern Knowledge, I have been working on things that are not…
Very Old Yet Not Embalmed
I’ve just spent a week in Oxford at a teacher seminar studying Shakespeare. I’m sure that there will be thoughtful and extensive posts about my time here and the people that I spent time with, but as the bus to Heathrow has both WiFi and power, and honestly a highway looks like a highway no…
Days 1 and 2 – CMK
Geek spiral. I am at the most intimate conference on education that I have ever attended. I sometimes feel like I hear about a conference just after the conference has reached its point of bloated and oversubscribed. We sit for hours in ballrooms watching yet another PowerPoint presentation or the feverish exhortations of the keynote…
Summer’s here
Officially. I love solar milestones on the wheel of the year. My daughters were born on them. One on Yule, 16 years ago. Twins on Imbolc, thirteen years ago. So we come to midsummer – Bergman’s film and Sonheim’s adaptation remind us that there are three “Smiles of a Summer Night” The first smile smiles…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 