education
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008I’ve just recently tapped into a conversation that is going on among edtech people. It is a conversation that is always going on among edtech people. Namely: how do we get people to change… how do we get teachers to use technology and administrators to demand teacher use of technology.
It has been my belief […]
Flickr? I don’t even know her.
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Lately, I’ve taken to reading Scott McLeod’s blog. Maybe because I dont’ update my own blog often enough.. I’ll post my comment to his post about all the things he gets from twitter, youtube, flickr, facebook and ning. (ps… here’s my flickr. )
The social web is about people and connectivity, right? So […]
Manifest
Sunday, July 6th, 2008People who spend most of their non-working hours online surfing and chatting to no really useful end forego exercise, activity, time in nature, time with friends and family. Studies show that kids who spend all their time playing video games (on and offline) tend to do more poorly in school and, at the extreme ends, […]
Book Trailers
Friday, June 27th, 2008I haven’t been writing on this blog for a while… but in case I’m still on anyone’s feed.. I have to brag.
My students created great book trailers in my class this spring. I was very proud of them. Please go take a look. And comment! I’d love to know that someone has been able to […]
If Yale Can’t Do It….
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 A charter school opening in 2009 in Washington Heights has got the solution … just pay teachers more. The school is the brainchild of Yale graduate and former Teach for America middle school teacher, Zeke M. Vanderhoek.
His idea is that if teachers were paid real money (in this case $125,000 a year plus […]
Hey Kids, there’s code behind that curtain!
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I’ve I just got the okay to explore wikis with my kids. Wikispaces is the one that was first suggested, but I’m also looking at ones with more utility.. I’m looking at editwiki, pbwiki… any other suggestions?
We need a wiki that gives us control, security, flexibility, and options for designing pages and […]
Brave New World Order
Sunday, February 10th, 2008There is so much spin on how innovative and transcending the new world is. How much is going to change for nearly everyone. I’m not so sure. For one, I’m not so sure how new any of this is… it seems to be that new technologies are layered onto universal ideas […]
The only way out is through
Sunday, February 10th, 2008I opened on Scott McLeod’s post about a technology facilitator named Pam who felt misused by the response she got from teachers and administrators to her presentation on web 2.0 tools. My thought is that the best use of a bad experience is self reflection. When people don’t respond the way we want them to.. […]
How?
Saturday, January 19th, 2008In my experience, classes that are heterogeneously grouped (or, in the case of an advanced group, include unable students) create slower moving classes that disadvantage better students and brings down the level of education overall. I know this is true in the middle grades, where most of the literature […]
worried, night time headache thingy
Saturday, January 19th, 2008I work in a district that has a very active parent body. Most of the time and with most parents, that’s a wonderful thing. But around grading time,it gets a little sticky… mainly because parents want good grades and every year one or two of them try to bully teachers into giving grades […]
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