Last night my wife and I sat down to watch some TV. The first time we have done so in weeks. We flipped to a channel that was showing “Medical Investigation”. As I watched the episode where the Medical Investigation team was trying to find out what was causing kids in a small town to get sick, I found myself […]
So I woke up at 4:00 this morning to join the techleaning.com webinar on The Tipping Point in K-12 Education: One-to-One Computing, Electronic Textbooks, and New Tools for Learning. A great presentation on the use of computers in the classroom and the power that one-to-one computing offers to schools. It was the first time I had taken part in a […]
On David WarlickÂ’s blog the past couple of days there has been a great discussion about pre-service teachers and what skills should they be taught before being thrown into the lions den. 🙂 A follow up to DavidÂ’s discussion was also posted on Christopher HarriÂ’s Imfomency blog a great post from someone teaching pre-service teachers. There are a couple points […]
After reading David WarlickÂ’s post: Innovation Learning for a Flat World, I got to thinking about the games that our students play on a daily basis and how right David and Bill MacKenty were about the language that these short-cuts use. So, I went out to the internet and in less than five minutes I found a short-cut to a […]
A great new article out by cnet.com titled Blogging 101-web logs go to school. I was glad to see that the classroom mentioned is using the same student friendly blog program as I am using with my 5th graders. Blogmeister is a great program that allows teacher to control the content that students publish.
Reece Lennon Writes in response to my “The Future of a School” article: Okay, so you gave her a philosophical answer, but what about a practical answer? What should she tell the architects when they are drawing up their plans? Yes, my answer is philosophical, and as far as the architects are concerned they need to know that we envision […]
A great new web site called S.O.S. (Situations, Outcomes, Strategies) was launched on Oct. 7. The following summery was taken from an eSchool News article found at this link. Teachers and library media specialists searching for new and innovative ways to educate their students about effective research practices now have a new online tool at their disposal: S.O.S. (Situations, Outcomes, […]
My school is in the process of building a new Media Center. We have held and continue to hold meeting with the architects, planners, consultants, etc to try and create a building for the 21st century. I have had some great conversations with my Deputy Superintendent over the future of technology. Yesterday she sent an e-mail with the following question. […]
Have you ever had one of those moments where a thought pops into your head that just makes you laugh? I had one last night over microwave popcorn. As I stood in front of the microwave waiting for the popcorn to finish I started thinking about kids today growing up with technology and how itÂ’s difficult for older generations to […]
In a recent article from eschool news talks about YahooÂ’s approach to putting copyrighted books online, while at the same time appeasing publishers. Something Google hasnÂ’t been able to do. My feeling is we are doing something new here,” Mandelbrot said. “We are building a collaborative effort that will make a great deal of copyrighted material available in a way […]