Learning is Change

EdCanvas

Ben Wilkoff — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:09:27 +0000

Some of you may have used or heard of this tool previously, but I had my first encounter with it tonight: http://www.edcanvas.com/. EdCanvas is essentially a content curation tool that lets you pull in content from Youtube, EduCreations, Guroo, Websearch, Google Drive, Dropbox and files from your desktop and place them into a tile interface for easy sharing and embedding elsewhere. It also has the ability to create quizzes that are embedded in the content.

It struck me as an incredibly robust platform for pulling together the vast resources from multiple platforms in a short amount of time with the ability to build an adaptive “canvas” quickly for different student groups. Please let me know if you have played with it previously or if you have additional uses for the tool that I have not considered as of yet.

If you want to get more acquainted with the tool, here is a quick tutorial of the basics: http://youtu.be/iOB-o5mXsFk

The Balance Between Talking about the Work and Doing the Work

Ben Wilkoff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:42:46 +0000

This is a video of frustration. It is a video where I am thinking through just how to find more time to create things rather than just talking about creating things. I am doing less reflection, but not because I want to. I am doing it because there is far less time to actually do work worth reflecting upon.

How do you maintain that balance in your work?

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Seeing the Difference between Training and Development

Ben Wilkoff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:39:46 +0000

We should notice the difference between technology training and professional development and explore ways in which we can make this difference known to others.

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Time, Opportunity, and Learning: Which are the Constants and Which are the variables?

Ben Wilkoff — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:14:17 +0000

Joe Dillon really got me started thinking about the constants and variables within schools and other institutions of learning. It made me think that we should take the constants off the table and stop worrying about them and start focusing only on the variables, in this case the Learning.

Original Video from Joe Dillon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPLPxi__ms8

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What promises are you making to learners?

Ben Wilkoff — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:23:54 +0000

I’m trying to create a set of norms or promises to live by in my collaborative work, but I would like to hear what other folks are promising to do for one another? What promises are you making to your stakeholders, whether they are learners or fellow professionals?

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Listening to what Learners Want: Autonomy, Mastery and Connection

Ben Wilkoff — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:59:20 +0000

I absolutely love the work of Amy Burvall and the Theory of Knowledge course. I pulled two of my favorite excerpts from the Student Voices video (http://youtu.be/SU72SpObYKY). Listening to learners is so essential, especially when they are saying things like this. I encourage you to watch the whole video from Amy and then react to it in your own authentic way.

Transformational Experiences don't have to be Rare

Ben Wilkoff — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:23:10 +0000

Based upon the great work and reflection of Christina Hendricks (http://youtu.be/i14BNHBv404), I wanted to think through just how easily we might create transformational experiences for one another. If it only requires lasting connection with others, then perhaps we only lack the readiness for transformational change.

How do you get yourself ready for transformational chance?

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The Side Effects of our Solutions

Ben Wilkoff — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:44:00 +0000

I like thinking about the "the problem we are trying to solve" without focusing on the side effects of our solution. Too often we are looking for silver bullets that will transform education without thinking about what the bullet is really meant to do.

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Natural Ways We Fit Together

Ben Wilkoff — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:01:24 +0000

I don’t want to change the org chart or the ways in which we define roles and responsibilities, but rather the idea that there is a single way that we can fit our roles together.

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Conversations are Meta-data (and why you should care)

Ben Wilkoff — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:43:10 +0000

I am engaged by this idea that conversations could be considered metadata and could be used to drive instruction or differentiation. How would that work in your learning environment?

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