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Re: Badges in the Bronx: P2PU + Youth Voices

paulallison — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:09:51 -0000

Thanks you Vanessa! You got us off to a great start with badges last week. Take a look at the Open Badges we made today for each other, and will be applying for with actual projects that we did in the Youth Voices Summer Program - Connected Learning with the New York City Writing Project at Lehman College.

Look for each of our student's applications and their peer assessments of each others' work using these badges.

http://youthvoices.net/badg...

Re: Digital Media and Learning Competition 5

paulallison — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:38:21 -0000

Thanks Vance! You should make a badge for making connections across continents, your expertise.

Re: Digital Media and Learning Competition 5

paulallison — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:58:14 -0000

It's been amazing to watch you grow over the past two years, Ruth (Johnnycash0). I wish we had badges to represent the shifts you make between Spanish and English, online management of twitter, YouTube, Facebook accounts for musicians ... and your work in school -- for example your inquiry into Lincoln.

Re: Digital Media and Learning Competition 5

paulallison — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:17:16 -0000

It will be interesting to see how the five teachers in the Youth Voices Summer Program find their own space for inquiry and passion while also learning from/with/alongside the youths.

Re: Digital Media and Learning Competition 5

paulallison — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:31:47 -0000

I've been looking at the Smithsonian's Digital Badging Workshop: http://dmlcompetition.net/p... and what's interesting to think about -- in addition to the whole mentorship-research design -- is the way the teens are designing badges that will be displayed for other teens to define Quests they might also want to take. It's no small matter to ask youths to both do something that moves from one of their personal interests into a passion, but also to ask them to--(almost) at the same time--drop breadcrumbs along their path so that other youths might join them there. Could we call badges breadcrumbs?

Re: Digital Media and Learning Competition 5

paulallison — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:24:32 -0000

Badges about badging?! Thanks. Seriously, Chad, thank you for pointing out important questions. I'm wondering, now how I'm going to answer your question when it comes from a student, "What's a project?" And I want to say that it's about finding a problem and developing some answers for it. I trust young people to find their own paths, and I feel confident to be on those paths with them -- mentoring, cajoling, wondering, praising, waiting. As far your questions about single project or several smaller projects. I think we are safer going for the smaller ones, and just letting them add up to something bigger when they do. How have you and your students been deciding on what gets badged in your experiments with badging?

Re: Digital Media and Learning Competition 5

paulallison — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:16:34 -0000

I like that youths can go to just one workshop or attend all four for a bigger experience. I'm wondering where content comes into the process. Will some of your youths end up talking about a similar question across media? I wonder if these youths will be able to show their teachers what they learned this summer.

Re: Writing and Reading Class Blogs on Teachers Teaching Teachers tonight (in 6.25 hours)

paulallison — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:51:05 -0000

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Re: New School, New Focus on China, Japan, Korea....

paulallison — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:51:05 -0000

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Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Mon, 21 May 2012 08:50:34 -0000

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Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:11:10 -0000

We'd be happy to have you and your students join us. Join
http://youthvoices.net , yourself, then we can see about getting some
students in.

Re: What can these teach us about student book blogs?

paulallison — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:08:04 -0000

Sorry about the confusion. No... I'm aware that these blogs are not student blogs, but i thought we might learn from them about what students might do when they blog about books.

Re: Writing and Reading Class Blogs on Teachers Teaching Teachers tonight (in 6.25 hours)

paulallison — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:41:10 -0000

Yes, shortly after the show at http://edtechtalk.com and at
http://teachersteachingteac...

Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:27:06 -0000

Nice EQ! What do you read/view?

Re: New School, New Focus on China, Japan, Korea....

paulallison — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:37:06 -0000

Thanks so much! What a great reading list you've begun.

Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:00:44 -0000

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Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:56:23 -0000

I agree that this is basic dialectical thinking, which is the basis of our work with double-entry. In fact, there's plenty to add to the description here about how to get students to:
1) really SEE (How do you get them to describe in detail? If language actually helps us see more, as I think it does, how do we invite young people to write, look, write, look write...)
2) really THINK when responding (How do we get students to capture the fleeting, seemingly unconnected ideas that pass through their minds... then write, and find the connections in the mess.)
3) really WONDER (How do we get students to question deeply, to expand their speculation, to speculate on the speculations, and to reflect on what their questions might come from and be leading to?)

Writing and writing and freewriting and focused writing and more freewriting is the key to all three of these.

Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:44:52 -0000

I grimaced when I heard that mistake too. She needs to be more careful. But! We do in face have "advisors" and "intelligence" in Iran. I'd like her to make a correction, one that says, "We need to get out of both Iraq and Iran!"

Re: New Journalism

paulallison — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:41:47 -0000

Christina, I love this as an example of a "project" because it is ongoing, about adopting a habit over time, and I've been thinking about how projects might be like this in school... more attuned with blogging. But I also like the notion that we might have these wonderful portraits. Unfortunately, I'm not as brave or as good a photographer as Thomas Hawk is.