Darren's Presentation

Hi. I'm Darren.

My Professional Blog: A Difference.

Thinking About Innovation in Education ...

During revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. (Kuhn, 1969)

Love the fingerstyle guitar. Another great player that uses this method is Andy Mckee. Check out his performance of Drifting.

What can I do now that I couldn't do before?

• Links, tags, RSS

• Replicable, Scalable, Sustainable

• Examples: Flat Classroom Project, Room 208 209, Mark Ahlness and the Mighty Writers

My Pedagogical Improvisation ...

My Guitar

First A Demo ...

Pre-Cal 30S (Fall '06) (Grade 11)

Pre-Cal 40S (Fall '06) (Grade 12)

AP Calculus (2006-07) (Grade 12)

My Favourite Riff

Scribe Posts

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Jamming

Evolving the practice ...

• Chat Boxes
• Feed Windows
• New technologies give rise to new pedagogies ... pictures worth more than 1000 words.
• Give students the tools ... then watch what they do.
• Developing "expert voices."

Ambiance

The object of learning is changing ...

On the first day of class this year I saw all my classes for only 30 minutes each. That was the day my daughter Emilia started grade one. I showed them this video ... a remix I made of the original made by Karl Fisch. (This is the first in Karl's trilogy on the changing nature of education; part 2 is called What If and part 3 is called 2020 Vision.)

Have you read Thomas Kuhn?

[http://www.geogreeting.com/view.html?zbw!ICiP+iOofVwU+jgE|A Message] from Karl Fisch.

If you're thinking seriously about pedagogy ...

Robert Marzano (A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works (2005); quick summary of main ideas)

How People Learn (1999)