{"id":40,"date":"2014-10-20T16:03:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/?p=40"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:08:21","slug":"jazz-impressions-of-cohort21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/2014\/10\/20\/jazz-impressions-of-cohort21\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Impressions of Cohort21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The question you ask yourself at the beginning is important, so naturally you spend some time crafting it. Certainly \u201cShould I use technology in my classroom?\u201d is a starting point, but you probably have no choice from a historical perspective, so \u201cHow should I use\u2026\u201d is more practical. Then you move on to \u201cHow should I teach my students to effectively use\u2026\u201d and so on down the rabbit hole.<\/p>\n

While you\u2019re doing that, though, I submit that you should look around at what others are doing, or maybe a nascent idea of your own, and just start trying things out. Talk to others who are trying things out. It might come to nothing, or completely miss the mark (it also might be a roaring success). However, you will have accomplished two things, at least: first, you will definitely learn something you didn\u2019t know before, including those tiny details of implementation. Second, you will have broken the paralysis that comes with all the question forming and perfection seeking (or in my case, the quest for the ultimate in streamlining and platform independence, let\u2019s call it \u201cNoSpace\u201d).
\nAnd then, when you have carved, shaped, and sanded your mission statement, you will have the skill and experience to put it into action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question you ask yourself at the beginning is important, so naturally you spend some time crafting it. Certainly \u201cShould I use technology in my classroom?\u201d is a starting point, but you probably have no choice from a historical perspective, so \u201cHow should I use\u2026\u201d is more practical. Then you move on to \u201cHow should … Continue reading “Jazz Impressions of Cohort21”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}