Getting Social

The folks at The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning and I had a brief back-and-forth on Twitter last week. Since then, the exchange has been rolling around in my brain energizing synapses and growing my dendrites. Uhmm ... sounds painful when put that way. It wasn't! Here's the exchange. The Challenge What my brain hasn't been able to let go of is this. Quite a bit has been written about how to start moving schools toward blended and personalized learning. I've actually got one of the newest on my desk at the moment - Pathways to Personalization by Shawn…

Confession time. I am currently supposed to be reading an epic amount of voter/candidate information material as part of my research for November 6th. I'm not. (But, lest anyone worry, I absolutely will!) Instead, I'm thinking about a set of connections that I made today after a really thought-provoking Twitter chat.  First, a bit of context. I've had a bit of a mentally tough week. You know the kind. Nothing major has gone wrong, but there are prickles of discontent everywhere and a sort of heavy feeling that you are punching water.  The reasons for all of this are, of…