Community Engagement and COETAIL: When I started COETAIL last year, one of the first blog posts that I wrote was about learning communities. In that post, I shared a mind map that talked about the ways in which I was a connected learner. Reflecting back on that post today, I am pleased to see that I have grown in…
“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey (Source) Introduction: As the title of this post suggests, most teachers usually skip the reflection part at the end of a unit. At least, to be honest, I usually skipped the reflection part at the end of a unit. It wasn’t…
They said ‘Austin good start now we can start giving you critiques so you can do a second draft and make it better and a third draft and make it better and you can make it much much closer to this [the exemplar].’ – Ron Berger, Austin’s Butterfly Introduction: Today, the world seems to be teetering…
The readings we were assigned this week were all about how to use personal learning networks and research skills to grow as an educator. I found many of the tips and suggestions quite helpful. Here’s the quote that resonated with me the most from the articles and links: “In order to be a node within…