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...
View ArticleEpistemological 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...
View ArticleEminent Person Introduction Posts
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View ArticleEpistemological 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...
View ArticleTeachers 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...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleDiscussion 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....
View ArticleArtifacts 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....
View ArticleOpening 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;...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleInquiry 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleReengage
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...
View ArticleSocial 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleSocial 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...
View ArticleEminent 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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