Classrooms Should Be More Like Trains. I was recently riding a train into the city and noticed that the upper floors of passenger cars on commuter trains are designated Quiet Zones. Quiet areas on trains are becoming increasingly popular. Thanks to the writings of Susan Cain.

A Thin and Fragile Pretense. On page 153-4 Crawford is talking about the way in which we depend on established values when transacting with each other.

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Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC. What Do YOU Want to Learn More About? What is a Constructivist MOOC? Connected Leadership in 10 minutes a day. Leading in a Networked World. Would you like to be part of a planning group for a topic next year? June 14, 2015.

The intentional blurring of professional and personal lines.

All this started with a little get together. Thursday, April 3, 2014. 8216;Trees, trees, trees. 8220;What did you see yesterday? Trees Trees. Of course, like all good writers, I stole the title of this piece from somewhere. In this case, I stole this from my middle daughter. This was her response to a similar question while we were traveling to Minden, Ontario.

A blog about education and using the tools of the 21st Century. 4 People are just interested in trends that are new and shiny. 5 It feeds our addiction to technologies and devices. This all depends on whether or not our use of the technology is an addiction. We need to recall that paper, too, is a technology.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. School, talking as a Principal group, and then meeting for supper all together and finally sharing successes, challenges and experiences as we relaxed in our hotel room.

For educators on Highway 105. Social Media Platforms by Perspective. Received this via email today, had to share! Blogged today at Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Originally blogged at We Are Teachers. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. By M Parrish Room 31. The Use of Social Media in School.