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Gleneagle joins the Six String Nation

Jowi & a gossip of Talons We were lucky tonight at Gleneagle to be paid a visit by Jowi Taylor and his wonderful project, the Voyageur Six String Nation Guitar. Iris meets Jowi & Voyageur After...

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Epistemological Wayfinding | Remixing Philosophy12 Discussions

Many thanks to Greg for capturing Wednesday and Thursday’s class discussions on his phone and uploading them to Soundcloud, so that we can catch up with what was discussed in a few sprawling...

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Eminent Person Introduction Posts

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Epistemological Ecology

This is cross-posted on the Philosophy12 Blog.  There is a certain pleasure in being allowed to start things off in a class like #Philosophy12; while others may garner the satisfaction that comes from...

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Teachers and Ritual Power

Andrew B. Watt struck me appropriately on the Sunday night before Night of the Notables with a post – you would do well to read in its entirety here – that makes a great many points that each are...

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First Banjournal

With the TALONS class setting out on its annual In-Depth Study, I wanted to get a little documentation going of my own efforts in learning the banjo. Having recently been given a rented (for three...

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Making the Learning Visible: TALONS on the American Revolution

Questions after reading homework from 2011 As part reflection on a statement made during the introductory session of Alec Couros‘ #ETMOOC, and part synthesis of the TALONS introductory blogging and...

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Discussion in a Democratic Classroom

To promote human growth. I discovered the above quotation (then highlighted, and apparently even underlined it) in a  (photocopy of a) book that Q lent me this week, Discussion as a Way of Teaching....

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Artifacts of Process

Notes on @GardnerCampbell's talk, Teaching, Learning & the Digital Imagination We’ve been talking a lot in Socials lately about how to realize the potential of discussion in the TALONS classroom....

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Opening K12 Education

Photo courtesy of @CogDog Having been exploring technology in the classroom for a few years now, I’ve seen more than a few passing trends in pedagogical circles come and go: blogs, wikis, podcasts;...

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On Keeping a Notebook

Kuhn & Paradigms I’ve written here before about being a ‘notebook guy,’ someone who cut my creative teeth with pen and paper and has yet to find the same intimacy in digital space that I have had...

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Inquiry into the Northwest

Organizing Inquiry Topics These last few weeks, the TALONS have taken their study of Socials 10 west, from the fledgling union of Confederation to Hudson’s Bay, Manitoba, and the resistance that...

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A few thoughts on the return of Chris Hadfield to Earth

It’s over, already? This glorious stretch of time when everyone and everything “anyone ever knew” was being photographed, watched over, and sung to sleep by a Canadian hurtling around the planet a...

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The Summer Book Project

Photo by Thomas Hawk (click image to read the interesting history of this photograph) For a formative period in my youth, I was made of books and words. Half a continent from home at the end of my...

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On dipping a toe…

Part of my summer plans to reread a few formative books of my university years.  It’s been ten years almost since I consciously “outgrew” Jack Kerouac’s singular influence on my young mind. Having...

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Reengage

Baker's Beach, Francis Peninsula Sunshine Coast, BC For the first time in what feels like a while, I took the almost the entire summer as vacation this year, and came back into school fresh with...

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Social Media & Personalized Learning: Media Clip Assignment

For the #TIEGrad cohort‘s first assignment, we’re each set with the task of creating a ‘media clip’ outlining our research interests and background coming into the class. We are supposed to experiment...

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The Rites of Fall

I’m writing this post on the last Friday of September, 2013. The weather on the coast has devolved into its single digit lows, and forecasts of rain, showers, and cloud. It seems both so recent, and...

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Social Media & Personalized Learning Project Proposal Ideas

As I’ve been blogging a little of late, I have spent September getting to know my various communities of learners once more. Whether the TALONS, this semester’s Philosophy 12 bunch, or my fellows in...

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Eminent Person Study: Documenting Transformative Learning

We began talking about Eminent Person the other day by discussing Gardner Campbell’s quoting of Gregory Bateson’s work, and the idea of: “…breaches in the weave of contextual structure.” As I’ve...

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