Current Events #2: "The Life Project"

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” ~Confucius

I found my Current Events post for Week 2 as I was reading Will Richardson’s chapter on RSS in his book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms.

I was using Figure 5.1 on pg. 76 to add subscriptions to my Google Reader. When I subscribed to Dean Shareski’s blog (http://ideasandthoughts.org ), I discovered a recent post entitled “The Learning Project”.

I really enjoyed this post for the simplicity of its theme: you become a good teacher when you become a good learner. To summarize his blog, he describes a new learning project he is doing with student teachers in his course at the University of Regina and he outlines four steps:
a) learn a completely new skill
b) write about it
c) collect resources and
d) take a snapshot of where you are at with the skill at the beginning, and then compare it to a snapshot at the end.

Wow, I thought, this is exactly what we are doing with the inquiry project! He is an inspiring blogger and I look forward to following his adventure to learn to play guitar while we learn Web tools.