November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

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Over the past two days I’ve had many discussions with educators about the idea of “Teacher as Connector“. It’s not a new idea but I do think it is an important part of being a teacher in today’s digital world. How do you help your students connect to others? As a teacher, do you have [...]

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Image by poptech via Flickr Community First Michael Wesch’s keynote this morning was simply breathtaking. In the follow up breakout session someone asked him: “How do you stop students seeing themselves as students, and as collaborators?” Mike sighed, put both hands on the podium and said: “That’s really hard work.” He went on to explain [...]

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When someone questions the power and value of a conference I think it’s fair to consider the ROI. For me, those conversations need to be able to continue online for a long time after the conference is over. The connections and informal discussions are valuable but need to be sustainable. Attending BLC in 2007 was my the [...]

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The following blog post was written by Geoff Gevalt, Executive Director and Founder, Young Writers Project, Inc. We thought his reflection was so amazing, that we have gotten permission to share it with you. Enjoy. At various times in Michael Wesch’s presentation on Thursday, I felt alternately inspired, wowed, encouraged, thrilled and out-of-date, inadequate, woefully [...]

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(A colleague of mine says I need to put a disclaimer on this post — affirming this is a true story, because when I told her about it, she didn’t believe me.) Yesterday afternoon I presented for the first time as a mainstream BLC presenter. For me, this was nothing short of a VERY BIG [...]

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When it comes to keynote speakers, nobody can ever match the line-up that the November Learning team puts together for BLC. Once again an amazing line up of thinkers outside of K-12 Education stretching us to think where we need to be taking kids and schools. Mitch Resnick opened the conference with a very simple [...]

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I have had a great first day of the conference, but my brain is full. The day started with an interesting keynote by Mitch Resnick, the inventor of Scratch. I do a lot with Scratch at my school and it was wonderful to see all of the projects that students are doing with the Scratch [...]

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As I listen to Mitch Resnick toss out gem after gem of soundbites and ideas, his initial statement of people becoming “makers of things” sticks in my mind as a concept that needs further exploration. On the surface, it’s a wonderful idea. Who would argue that creativity and making things is in anyway a negative? [...]

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Riding a Paris Metro David Wong looks up at the ads. All beautiful images captioned with little text. One, an image of the Earth and a single star. The caption: “When you look at Alpha Centauri — the closest star to Earth — you are watching something that happened four years ago.” In their essay [...]

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