Fireside Learning:  Conversations about Education

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Vincent Mespoulet

"I remember" with Joe Brainard and Georges Perec

Hi everyone, This is the week-end, and i have a good litterary game to suggest you... Rather than to determine if a memory is good or ba...

Started by Vincent Mespoulet

0 Feb. 2, 2008
Vincent Mespoulet

January 27, 2008 - Holocaust: Day of the Memory/ Shoah: Jour de la Mémoire / Giorna della Memoria

On this link... Maybe someone can help me to find the text in english of Primo Levi... Se questo è un uomo Voi che vivete sicuri Nell...

Started by Vincent Mespoulet

2 Jan. 31, 2008
Reply by Skip Zilla
Ian Carmichael

Boundaries in the classroom

"All I wanted was laissez faire, but now anything goes…!" A few of us have had a slight contretemps over content and suitability here at...

Started by Ian Carmichael

3 Jan. 31, 2008
Reply by Sue Palmer
Ian Carmichael

Links to new material on Fireside Readers -

Our purpose in the world and how we learn it. Extended quote from Ursula LeGuin. Winter in Vancouver -a LeGuin prose-poem, if you like. ...

Started by Ian Carmichael

0 Jan. 30, 2008
Connie Weber

let's not neglect special education

An area I think we don't have enough talk going on about lately is special ed. We're hardly even discussing it. So I'd ask, what are the ...

Started by Connie Weber

17 Jan. 29, 2008
Reply by Connie Weber
Nathan Lowell

Photoshop Is Not A Technology

Semantics are important. The words we use shape the way we think about a subject. While we all use some "verbal shorthand" now and again ...

Started by Nathan Lowell

27 Jan. 28, 2008
Reply by Nathan Lowell
Ian Carmichael

Isolation - when is it vicious, when is it virtuous?

Connie's forum on the decline(?) of reading has resparked a thought. It's about the (double) standards of what quiet activities are good ...

Started by Ian Carmichael

15 Jan. 28, 2008
Reply by Laura Gibbs
Jennifer Lubke

What are your favorite YA resources about digital citizenship and/or careers?

This discussion is for secondary teachers, particularly those who work with struggling/reluctant readers. I am compiling two annotated r...

Started by Jennifer Lubke

0 Jan. 28, 2008
Ian Carmichael

Teaching and learning from within

I'm reading The Telling by Ursula Le Guin at the moment. Delightful of course (imho). And challenging. Here's a focus quote "One of the h...

Started by Ian Carmichael

1 Jan. 27, 2008
Reply by Vincent Mespoulet
Vincent Mespoulet

Where conversations about education begin and finish ? Tribute to my friend R.I.P Rachel Corrie (1980-2003)

Hi Everyone, I would like to ask to fireside learners some simple questions just to know if classical americanocentrism keep you from be...

Started by Vincent Mespoulet

18 Jan. 26, 2008
Reply by Ellen Pham

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