Tag Archives: 1001 Flat World Tales

1001 Tales, Remixed: An Exercise in Pedagogical Mashups

September 12, 2007 – 12:20 am

A Different Kind of Marriage
Work and life are still too busy to stop to blog, but this announcement excites me, because I’m not aware of anything like it happening in globally collaborative / flat classroom projects. And the more I think about it, the more interesting, pedagogically and geekily, it gets.
It’s this: Because […]

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A Gallery of Hats: Overdue Updates

August 22, 2007 – 2:55 pm

Who is the audience for this post? AudienceS is more accurate. They are people who are interested in:

Expanding the Global Cooling Project - I’ve never been so excited about anything, and an update is overdue;
Notes from the trenches of a teachergeek in his first weeks as tech coordinator at a new Apple 1:1 […]

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"Big Questions," "Critical Issues," and Conversations Abounding

July 16, 2007 – 8:38 am

I know I’ve been a handful lately. Posts too long, thoughts too convoluted. “Think-alouds are messy.” Sorry.
Worst of all, I’ve been shrill at times. That comes from what I see as an education system blindered beyond the school boundaries, and educators largely unwilling to reflect on that.
But I’m more and more […]

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I’m Nobody. Goodbye to All of That.

July 9, 2007 – 3:35 am

[This post is a watershed for me, stuffy as that may sound. Many loose threads needed weaving. I apologize for the tone, which I fear is typically more self-important and more harsh than I would like. I also apologize for the length. I hope you’ll read it through, and thank you […]

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Daily Diigo: 1001 Flat World Tales at NECC :) (News travels slowly)

July 6, 2007 – 5:30 pm

NECC 2007: Preparing Teachers to Lead in a Global Society (Lucy Gray, U Chicago)

Scott Schwister of Higher Edison was nice enough to inform me that the 1001 Flat World Tales (book release late July) was mentioned in this NECC workshop as an “example of global collaboration.” Way out here in Korea, that’s nice […]

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