Archive for September, 2010

Gender debate heats up, Dr. Lise Eliot’s work adds fuel

Gender debate heats up, Dr. Lise Eliot’s work adds fuel

Got Brains? September 26, 2010 at 11:01 pm 1 comment

If you’ve been following the posts at We Teach We Learn, you know that a healthy percentage of posts have been about brain-based gender differentiation. So we were thrilled when We Teach We Learn recently received a comment from Lise Eliot, an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at The Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science. What she says, however, might surprise you.

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Wired magazine

Quote of the Day September 25, 2010 at 8:49 pm Comments are Disabled

“It’s the 21st Century. Knowing how to read a novel, craft an essay, and derive the slope of a tangent isn’t enough anymore. You need to know how to swim through the data deluge, optimize your prose for Twitter, and expose statistics that lie…. Call it the neoliberal arts: higher learning for highly evolved humans.”

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Ken Robinson

Quote of the Day September 21, 2010 at 9:44 pm Comments are Disabled

“Many people set aside their passions to pursue things they don’t care about for the sake of financial security. The fact is, though, that the job you took because it “pays the bills” could easily move offshore in the coming decade. If you have never learned to think creatively and to explore your true capacity, what will you do then?”

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3 Pillars of strong PLCs

3 Pillars of strong PLCs

Featured Articles September 20, 2010 at 10:18 pm Comments are Disabled

I’ve been teaching for three years at St. Croix Falls Middle School, but have recently had to relocate to Stanley-Boyd, where they feel that they’re a good school, but are ready to make the push to be great. They’ve got a lot of big ideas, with the PLC being the most prominent. So, as a new teacher, I was recently able to attend a PLC conference facilitated by Eric Twaddle to learn about some of the expectations of my new school.

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Layers of a PLN

videos September 16, 2010 at 3:43 pm Comments are Disabled
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Building your PLN

videos September 16, 2010 at 2:59 pm Comments are Disabled

Building Your Own Personal Learning Network from Carl Anderson on Vimeo.

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