Pedagogy and Formation

MARCH 5, 2025

Formation as the Practice of many Practices I write in my book 'Pedagogy and Education for Life' that: Education is the whole of life of a community, and the experience of its members learning to live this life, from the standpoint of a specific goal. He argues that simply passing on knowledge doesnt change people.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the importance of focusing on the why as it relates to learning. The many benefits speak for themselves, which compels all of us to ensure that this becomes a mainstay in daily pedagogy. What all one must do is step into the shoes of a student.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

A great deal has changed since I began writing this blog back in 2009. The premise of the image aligns with work that I help facilitate in that there has to be a focus on sound pedagogy while creating a culture that truly prepares learners with the qualities they need now and well into the future.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Before getting into the specifics of this post, it is important to flesh out each concept to ensure the efficacy of these shifts in pedagogy. It considers the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum, and environments by or for learners to meet their different learning needs and passions. So what is a playlist exactly?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The following is cross-posted at Laura Fleming''s blog titled Worlds of Learning. By embedding them into their own sites or blogs and pushed out to their social networks. The real aim of educational technology is to modernize pedagogy and to shape the education of the future. By putting them on Mozilla OpenBadge. ?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2018

There are many reasons I continue to blog regularly, but the biggest is trying to add a practical lens to many of the ideas we either see or hear about on social media. Image credit In my opinion, you don’t have to be a great writer to blog. Thanks to everyone who has made the time to visit my blog, read posts, and provide comments.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 3, 2014

This often produces a disastrous effect as the pedagogy does not support the use of the technology tool in arriving to or assessing learning outcomes. ." - John Seely Brown I absolutely love this quote that Vicki Davis ( @coolcatteacher ) uses in the opening chapter of her new book titled Reinventing Writing.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2013

Earlier in the year I blogged about Mrs. Westbrook''s use of Instrgram in her English class as a means for her students to demonstrate conceptual understanding. best practices Common Core educational technology Innovation pedagogy' Today I was super excited to see yet another one of her impressive learning activities.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Pedagogically Sound Lessons If you are a reader of this blog, then you know that this is one area that I focus on extensively with my writing. Addressing issues immediately as they arise, re-directing adverse behaviors, and utilizing positive reinforcement at opportune times all aid in creating a classroom conducive to learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 29, 2021

Now I didn’t refer to them as these in the book, but the purpose of my blogging is to share my reflections and expand on ideas. In Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms , I identified six dimensions of disruptive thinking.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Well, another year of writing has passed, and it was a big one as 2019 marked ten years since I began my blogging journey. Well, after begrudgingly agreeing to pen some guest posts for him, I built up my confidence and launched my blog in March of 2019. Blogging has certainly changed over the past ten years.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I have written extensively in the past the digital world that we are now all apart of provides so much promise with paired with sound pedagogy. For more information check out the Metaverse blog to see what teachers are creating and check them out on Twitter.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 21, 2018

I huddled in my home office and focused my attention on email, writing a blog post, tweaking some presentations, and updating the digital handouts that all participants get during one of my keynotes or workshops. The other day I was working from home, which is a rarity for me these days.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

It runs counter to newer trends of culturally relevant pedagogy , or culturally responsive teaching , in which critics contend that students identities should be reflected in what they learn. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. We are all waiting for answers.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) : I have previously blogged about this event, but am compelled to mention it again. This is going to be a great opportunity for my staff to truly experience the power inherent in educational technology when combined with pedagogy. My fingers are now crossed!

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Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

I believe the technology and the change in pedagogy across the entire school have contributed to our increased scores.”. The post Technology and Change in Pedagogy Lead to Big Gains in the Classroom appeared first on Digital Promise. This is seen in almost every classroom. Technology allows for more personalized learning.

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Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

All too often beginning teachers are attracted to the pedagogy as an end itself, rather than as the vehicle to that end. Our beginning teachers need to be helped to understand the relationship between the selection of appropriate pedagogies and intended outcomes (Haydn & Stephen, 2022).

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 25, 2018

In the beginning, we really weren’t sure what we were doing or whether it would lead to improved outcomes, but we did our best to align every innovative idea with research and sound pedagogy. Thanks to my amazing teachers, innovative changes began to take hold and outcomes improved in the process.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Currents in Teaching and Learning , Special Issue: Digital Pedagogies 12(2), 33-43. The virtual mystery web-tool: An online hybridized problem-based learning teaching tool created by students for students. Fukuzawa, S. A “techno-phobe’s” journey to creating a Hybridized Problem-based Learning Web-tool.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This was followed by more writing, reading around the Curriculum and Assessment Review that is asking for a Call for Evidence , and general reading and blogging the recent Practical Pedagogies conference that I attended.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 25, 2019

Just when I wrap my tired teacher brain around a technology tool or web-based program to pair with my pedagogy, one of three things happens: The tech shuts down; The vendor starts asking for money; or. It’s the way of today’s world and a constant in education. A newer, shinier tool or program is introduced. It’s brutal, but it’s real.

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Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

The “emergency remote learning (ERT)” implemented widely during the pandemic did not generally represent a thoughtful transition to an online teaching modality that prioritizes a learner-center pedagogy (Bozkurt & Sharma, 2020; Hodges et al., This inaugural TA blog in 2023 is full of questions rather than answers.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2010

Brought together by innovative practices, and a desire to integrate Google educational tools with sound pedagogy. Who knows, maybe now I will start an official blog using Google Blogger? This was by far the most intense, and rewarding professional development venture that I have ever been a part of. Wait, I just did. reflection'

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Pedagogy and Formation

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As we have reached the end of the academic year in schools and universities within Australia, I thought it might be useful to revisit the first question in my pedagogical framework in 'Pedagogy and Education for Life'. "Do Thank You Thank you to the many thousands of people who follow my blog. This is my last post for the year.

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

With support and collaborative input from the LEGO Foundation, Project Zero embarked on an exploration of the pedagogy of play in 2015, in partnership with the International School of Billund in Denmark, which has made play a key part of its approach to learning. Project Zero has a dedicated blog to Pedagogy of Play.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

Citation from the Award Committee: The 2024 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award Committee has selected The Active Learning in Political Science (ALPS) Blog to receive the 2024 APSA-PSA International Partnership Award. The blog reflects an inclusive approach to voices and communities, focusing on empowering early career academics.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

Kemp Edmonds, an investor and entrepreneur, observed AltSchool’s mission like this: “Here’s technology coming to save this industry with its incredible promises that often lack an understanding of how things work in unique and specific industries, pedagogies and dynamic jurisdictions.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Resources like the Challenge Based Learning framework , tools such as Teams , Flipgrid , Pear Deck (especially in student-paced mode ), and Wakelet , and this blog post about creating authentic distance learning in science class can help us prepare for this new type of work.

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All Things Pedagogical

MARCH 19, 2023

As someone who wrote a whole dissertation and then a book centering on "tactile residue" I really believe we need to have a talk about loss and memory when it comes to pedagogy. (As I am arguing that we need to make space for loss in our pedagogies and this is exactly a 100% what neo-liberal Higher Education is against. Deep breath.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. These three sections guide you to keep pedagogy at the core of your LMS decision-making process.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 21, 2024

This needs to be strong, meaning that they have a broad and deep understanding of effective pedagogy, rooted in evidence, but also effectively filtered through the lens of the specific context in which the teacher is working. The key is figuring out the level of alignment between the mental models held by both the coachee and the coach.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

As such, we have to establish standards that differentiate strong and weak pedagogy in edtech tools and help us decipher between real innovation and snake oil. Explore the Edtech Marketplace Today blog series to hear other voices from the field share important perspectives on challenges and strategies to improve the edtech market.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

It also turns out that games use many of the features that learning science has revealed as effective pedagogy. And, in the last few years, the explosion in device ownership means technology hurdles – both in access and digital literacy – are lowering.

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Becoming a History Teacher

MARCH 11, 2025

I have previously talked about pace targets 1, 2 & 3 in a blog exploring how a mentor could go about targeting their mentees transitions to help them move more smoothly between lesson phases. Pace Targets 1, 2 & 3: Transitions, instructions and purpose.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2020

Collaborative learning is a pedagogy backed by long-standing, proven learning science findings that can easily be implemented in a remote learning context. How can we implement these strategies with students at home? And most importantly, how can we do this with attention to the equity issues that will arise?

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Human Organization. 69 (3): 252-262. Morais, Robert J.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In other words, good game design is good pedagogy. If you are interested in learning more about gaming for adults, read Stidwell’s guest blog. A well-designed game involves three kinds of learning: task-based, individualized, and scaffolded. Yet, people often see games as just for kids and not as educational tools for adults.

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