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I had my first #ukulele lesson with Aldrine Guerrero today. As a goal we wanted to develop a curriculum for my playing. I decided to take lessons as I learned a couple chords, like to make noise pretending I knew scales, and had annoyed everyone in my family pretending to know a few songs. Basically hit a wall in learning teachers can only break. You can pra
Greg McVerryTip 1: Do intro videos and two check in videos twice a year Tips 2: Schedule individual sessions ask students to come with a question Tip 3: Rely on what you know about good teaching Tip 4: Use synchronous meeting Tip 5: Use breakout rooms Tip 6: Simple navigation improves learning Tip 7: Build in offline activities Tip 8: Make podcasts for students so they
Greg McVerryGoal of the Module You will create a portfolio website that tracks your efforts to make yourself or the world a better place. There are a number of ideas you can choose from: Learn and teach a classic family recipe. Join an online movement Do a two week long quantified self project (diet,exercise, reading, digital detox) Making a mental health guide tracking
Greg McVerryI am reading Rumi's poetry right now. I say reading for I can not truly hear the meaning. Unless of course I find the emptiness to not listen. Until then I do try to find audio versions of poems in Persian to miss meanings in Cadence of quatrains and tone of odes. Prosody of the voice carried by a 1,000 past tongues. Alas, I rely on Coleman Banks like everyo
Greg McVerryThe metaphor of weaving has meant a lot to me this past year. As the world unwinds around us we need to wrap oursevles in love. Femedtech and the Quilt project, exploring why epochs get defined by war and not weaving. Looking for a new metaphor of knowledge brokering and settling on weaving. Considering how multi-species worlding links our spirit and nature
Greg McVerryYou need to create a spreadsheet or document to answer the following questions: Did you post a reflection of your reading by tracing the shape of a TV show (2020-09-06) Did you write a blog post on how shapes affect stories 2020-09-06 Did you complete a free choice blog post? 2020-09-06 Did you trace the shape of a popular communication tool like email? 2020
Greg McVerryWe get data and teacher training so wrong in Connecticut. Let's ignore that the teacher training regulations are older than every single new teacher (circa 1996) but we break almost every rule when it comes to even passable sniff test measurement. Let me give you the SCSU perspective -Field work a rubric in CPAST (a growth model of different rubrics for diff
Greg McVerryBeen reading about this paper on spiders and extended cognition https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-017-1069-7 and thinking back to all the work I read this summer on the networking and communication between fungus and tree roots. Maybe our belief in human supremacy deserves a punishment of Promethean proportions.. ...also further evidence on th
Greg McVerryToday in the #tech4teens camp we practiced nested semantic #html5 elements as we built our Movie Posters. I love this project we designed originally with Mozilla and Girls Who Code. It lives on with Glitch but it is by far one of the best digital storytelling tools. The task was to create a scary Halloween movie about technology. Sure students build websites
Greg McVerryLooking for a an action packed day today. -Early on I had some ideas for the #cmmcab working group that kept festering on my hike yesterday. So did some hacking on Working Group tasks before house woke up. -Dropped kids off at school and checked the six online classes I teach this semester. Dropped in to share my love of Erik B and Rakim (this week doing bes
Greg McVerryWe had a wonderful meeting of the cmmc-ab objectives and assessment working group yesterday. Spent some time discussing the difference between knowledge and skills, nouns and verbs, and how these make up bodies of knowledge in the domains of #cybersecurity . Now we return to the CP, CA1, CA2, and CA3 draft objectives to ensure we have these "families" or dom
Greg McVerryOur democracy is threatened. People doomscrolling into depression. All facebook's fault. Join #IndieWeb for #Blocktober
Greg McVerryI will probably just give A's to everyone who did most of their work or never gave up, and those in between. Surviving a pandemic, taking 5 classes (equals 45 hours to meet fed requirements) and work 35-50 hours a week. All the evidence I need of knowledge growth. ...I want my annual report to say the same: I survived a global pandemic, went weeks without po
Greg McVerryMantras, a sanskrit word , derives from meditation practices of Hinduism and Bhuddisum. These short phrases, represent universal truths people use to focus their minds away from the material. "Mantra" by A literacy mantra repesents your worldview to how we and children learn to read and write. Your epistemological views , what you think about knowledge, and
Greg McVerryIn my previous post I shared pictures of a hand carved spoon I am shaping from wood. I used this tool as a metaphor to explore my goals for #edu522. Got me thinking about what would the shape of the sotry be if I stretched the metaphor just a little too far. Knowledge isn't Spoon Fed In this class you design your syllabus, well the important parts. I still c
Greg McVerryIn every conversation you hear calls to get back to school, to "Get back to Normal." I don't like the old normal. Normal did not work for the majority of our children. Especially black, brown, and indigenous kids. I want to serve up something new. So to illustrate my subjectives for this class I decided to learn a bit more whittling and carve up a spoon. I b
Greg McVerryIn many ways though I see the dominance of argument to be a central problem with the enlightenment theory that tried to quantify inequality based on sex and an artificial construct of race. It goes farther then the Enlightenment The whole idea that man was given dominion over the natural world, which traces further back to Greek ideas of argument in logos, p
Greg McVerryI am reaching out because the Concepts for Adaptive Learning (CfAL) at the Farnam Center (formerly Farnam Neighborhood House) 5 Science Park is launching a virtual summer program (Tech4Teens) for teens. We ask, respectfully, that you share this information across New Haven and within your networks. Tech4Teens is designed to empower youth to share their passi
Greg McVerryMake a Podcast Here is my 2toPonder series and my son's podcast series . Want to make a podcast, just record on your phone or laptop and upload the file somewhere. Use Paper In my literacy mantra I made a flip book like explanation. I just stacked my phone camera on a bunch of books. I also do little clip art talks with paper cut outs You can do "In Plain En
Greg McVerryWe are launching Tech 4 Teens Club. An #IndieWeb club for teens to learn web design, podcasting, photography, video editing, and coding.
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