Who we are as teachers
I was fortunate enough to give a presentation to some education graduate students last week about my work with blogs and wikis and podcasts. After the presentation, I received a great email from the...
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I reported earlier about working I had been doing to help other teachers set up blogs to use with their students. For the last week or two, this work has taken up an increasingly large part of my time....
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Blogging 101 motivates students This article talks about a first grade teacher who is using blogging as an instruction tool with her students. I really loved this quote: Yet Cassidy (the teacher) never...
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Schools consider eliminating homework grades This article reports on an initiative in Middletown Ohio to revise their policy on homework. According to the article: Under the proposed policy, homework...
View ArticleBeing Present 2.0
In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind – New York Times This article in today’s New York Times discusses teaching students “mindfulness:” Mindfulness, while common in hospitals,...
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Teacher Magazine: Adventures of a School Tech Specialist This is a commentary from a school technology specialist outlining “168 hours in June.” I really liked the “in the chair” quality of the report,...
View ArticleWhat does Ed-Tech really do?
eSchool News online – States: Ed tech is raising student achievement This article is a preliminary report on a large-ish set of studies which investigate the benefits of technology in education,...
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What makes good educational technology leadership?
Scott McLeod, of Dangerously Irrelevant, issued a challenge to edubloggers to address the topic of educational technology leadership. Administrators’ lack of knowledge is not entirely their fault. Most...
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The Role of Leadership in Change
Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrelevant has a very powerful post about the role of and necessity for leadership in effecting change in technology in our schools. Here is the overview: When we talk about...
View ArticleMoving Day
It’s time to pack up this space and move on to a Blogger blog. Please follow the conversation at our new digs, Inventing Learning. See you there (I hope). Looking forward to continuing the conversation.
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