From Chris Lehmann’s TEDX- NYED talk ……”what do you teach?…. don’t say I teach English or Science (ect.), say I teach children!”
Today a student equipped with a smart phone can do research about a topic anywhere so why then would a student travel specifically to the library? A school space must be designed in such a way that students want to come and stay in the space. Is there comfortable furniture? Is there a high speed [...]
Huh? What do Avatars and assessment have in common well about as much as a Snowman, Tony Blair, Abe Lincoln and a Husky do. Huh? Check out these examples of formative assessment:
The students where asked to design an avatar and record their answer to the following questions:
How does what I eat and drink affect my [...]
In an effort to visually represent factors impacting curriculum in America I am creating a detailed timeline of educators and influences happening within the field of education as well as external factors such as the following:
nature of society
available technology
transitions
the economy
life styles
family structures
national/individual philosophies
value structures
nature of the workplace
religious influences
environmental factors
local/national and world politics
Preceden – Make a Timeline for [...]
Yes we are behind but when this is how students have to quest tools for learning…… light years behind!
Moving away from teacher centered tech many a times happens naturally when in the presence of digital natives. We know that collaboration, creativity and life-long learning are essential skills for the future. There is a fine line between setting standards, showing exemplars and boxing students in. But if there is no bar [...]
Our middle school is what some would consider a leader in technology integration. Look we even won an award:)
But I just can’t help but notice that students are turning inward instead of leveraging this technology to collaborate. Which brings me to the idea of curriculum……..when students cover the same context as they did pre-laptop [...]
Information Literacy
How can we teach our students to navigate the world of ever growing information in the present and for the future?
What are ways in which social media can be used to leverage access to real time information for our students?
How does the Big6 IL approach help to successfully navigate vast amounts of information?
What are ways teachers can check [...]
I learned my lesson of in delaying to activate Akismet! After being slammed by spam…I know I know obviously it was going to happen but some how my attempt to tune out of awhile has come back to haunt me.
Solution the all but unfortunate phpadmin slq delete from wp_comments where comment_approved = ‘0′
Oh well…heres to a [...]
As I transition from an international school in Shanghai to my new school in Zürich I find myself in the middle of packing and purging madness. This process is quite cleansing in a way but the one thing that I can’t help but feel sad to let go is the blog that to date has [...]
