http://www.chivetta.org The Anthony Chivetta Blog Tue, 06 May 2008 23:40:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. I would like to share with you an experience that I have found to be deeply rewarding. For the last two years I have participated in the GLSEN’s Day of Silence. ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/05/06/experiential-learning-the-day-of-silence/ This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. I recently gave a talk to my high school titled “Three Lessons from High School”. As a senior who will be graduating, I took the opportunity to share with my school the ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/04/27/three-lessons-from-high-school/ One of the great flattening aspects of Twitter is that it brings people of different beliefs and backgrounds together for spontaneous communication and discussion. Sometimes these turn into Twitter debates, or Twitterbates (as I have just now decided to call them). Take the following example: I was remarking (to ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/03/11/twitter-twiterbates/ I have recorded my presentation from the Midwest Educational Technology Conference as a podcast. The presentation is titled Student Technology Leadership Program: How Students Can Lead a School to 21st Century Learning and discusses the MICDS Student Technology Group (StuTech). If you wish to hear me stumble through ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/03/08/metc-presentation-in-podcast-form/ This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. A few weeks ago, my school embarked on a grand experiment entitled mini-term. Rather than have 6 classes per day, rather than divide learning into 45 minute blocks, we opened the schedule ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/03/05/mini-term-dropping-the-schedule/ I tend to use twitter as a place to dump interesting thoughts. Many of these thoughts take the form of rhetorical questions or statements with implied questions such as: That blog post you just wrote: does it lead us to an end? Or, is it just reaping the money to ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/02/01/twitter-answering-your-rhetorical-questions/ This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. This was originally written for publication for my school’s newsletter’s edition on “21st century learning”. I present it to you here not as an attempt to present any new ideas, but in the ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/01/22/21st-century-education-thinking-creatively/ This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. As I watch students (myself included, as always) work on video projects for their foreign language, English, or other classes, I see a striking similarity between those videos and my family’s home movies. ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/01/07/teaching-the-process-of-design-or-making-student-videos-interesting/ This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. Cognitive Daily has a summary of a study (PDF) on the connection between different types of practice tests and performance on a final test. The conclusion (as reported by Cognitive Daily) shouldn’t come ... http://www.chivetta.org/2008/01/05/learning-through-tests/ This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there. If students or teachers fear an inability to support technology used in classrooms this can become a major hindrance to adoption of technology in teaching and learning. Tech-savvy students, however, can help ... http://www.chivetta.org/2007/12/10/student-technology-leadership-collaborative-learning/