Originally posted in Edutopia on May 30, 2012 As a junior in high school, I was finally able to enroll in the photography class. Offered only every other year, this was the only time the course was available to me (it was not open to freshman), and since there was only one section, the period three [...]
As many of you know, I am an administrator of a virtual school which has prompted many interesting face to face discussions with many of you, and one particular relatively uninformed and ignorant discussion with one person in particular. Every time I share what I do and what our school is all about, I acknowledge [...]
I have explored this thought before (here, here, and here), but I still don’t understand why we always want to put a stopwatch on learning. Yes, I get the constraints that physical schools and systems have and how hard traditions are to break. But, one of the things I love about working in a virtual [...]
To quote Dwight Shrute, You know what? Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, so I thank you. To Tom Whitby, MaryBeth Hertz, Steven Anderson, Shelly Terrell – founders of #edchat, and to George Couros and Patrick Larkin – founders of #cpchat, please accept the beginning of #elrnchat as our “thank you” to each [...]
