Brian Metcalfe:
"Not my circus, not my monkeys!" ~ Polish proverb
Brian Metcalfe:
Olde DS106 Book
Brian Metcalfe:
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." - Author Unknown
Brian Metcalfe:
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Brian Metcalfe:
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it". - Edith Wharton
Brian Metcalfe:
DS106 Flexibility
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DS106 ABCs
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Learning the DS106 way!
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DS106 is Engagement!
Brian Metcalfe:
"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps ... we must step up the stairs. " - Vance Havner
Brian Metcalfe:
"Not all superheroes have capes ... some have Teaching Degrees." - Author Unknown
Brian Metcalfe:
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward
Brian Metcalfe:
"Never stop learning because life never stops teaching." - Unknown
Brian Metcalfe:
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
Brian Metcalfe:
"A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb
Brian Metcalfe:
"I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy." - Alan Dershowitz
Brian Metcalfe:
"A child who goes through school and never makes a video is akin to going through school and never writing a story." - Dean Shareski
Brian Metcalfe:
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." - B. F. Skinner
Brian Metcalfe:
"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of Learning." - William Arthur Ward
Brian Metcalfe:
“… the students in our classrooms are changing – largely as a result of their outside-of-school experiences with technology – and are no longer satisfied with an education that doesn’t immediately address the real world in which they live.” - Marc Prensky
Brian Metcalfe:
"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed." - Thomas Moore
Brian Metcalfe:
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?” - Eve Merriam
Brian Metcalfe:
"Assessment is not a spreadsheet ... it's a conversation." - Irmeli Halinen
Brian Metcalfe:
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask ... remains a fool forver." - Chinese Proverb
Brian Metcalfe:
"Standing on the shoulders of giants."
Brian Metcalfe:
"The future ain't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra
Brian Metcalfe:
"Fall seven times, get up eight." - Chinese Proverb
Brian Metcalfe:
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
Brian Metcalfe:
"Never look down on anyone unless you are helping them up!" - Jesse Jackson
Brian Metcalfe:
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teachers you a lesson." - Tom Bodett