Dear International Administrators, Please help me. I have teachers in almost every content area at all most every grade level asking for help in finding schools that understand the shift in learning that is happening. I have English teachers, Technology people, Social Studies teachers, Elementary teachers, etc asking for help. They all ask for the same thing: Jeff, Do you […]
Two recent lessons I have been involved in are using Google Earth with 2nd Graders and having 5th graders create audio books for Pre-K students. Google Earth Lesson (2nd Grade): Have students pair up. (I always have kids number 1 and 2, it makes it easy to say “OK, #1 your turn to ……) Students start Google Earth and each […]
A comment left by Dan Christian yesterday on my post about the changing landscape of blogging. Has me back here thinking about my job as an educational technologist. First I think we need to understand how I view my job and what I think the job of an educational technologist should include. First and foremost we are educators. Our job […]
What? My Technorati Authority rating is down to 188? Wait? How? It was at 198 just hours ago? To make matters worse it was at 251 in June. What happened? Where did all the links go? Don’t worry…I have a theory…here me out. First of all please do not think that I am all hung up on my ranking within […]
This is a must watch video for every educator. In grades 4 and above educators should then turn around and use these when teaching any lesson where students are researching information. These…right here….are the new literacy skills that today’s generation need! This text will be replaced
Just finished up a full day at UNIS-Hanoi and thinking about where the conversations focused today. I spent the day talking with groups of teachers; Math/Science, Languages, Humanities, etc. We talked about my opening session and then got into some ideas on what learning looks like in a 1:1 tablet program that they have launched this year…how does it change […]
In about 20 minutes I’ll be in a taxi on my way to the airport to visit the United Nations International School in Hanoi. In preparing for the conference I’ve been up dating a couple of my slides and like to use Google as an example of what skills companies are looking for in today’s work force. After all, Google […]
The power of the network at work. Clarence Fisher and Jen Wagner brought this to my attention. Barbara Barreda, the principal of St. Elisabeth’s school has lost her house do to the wildfires in LA. Two years ago a class at Barbara’s school skyped a class in Shanghai to talk about the differences between our schools and cities. How global […]
This Tweet from Sarah came across my screen yesterday: So here you go…a list of plug-ins we have running here on our WordPress MU 2.6.3 install. Please note that this site has been created for teachers to communicate with parents. As of now that is its function within a larger picture of a learning/communication portal we are creating here. This […]
(As you can tell from Kim’s recent post. Systematic change at all levels is on our mind at ISB) How much time to we spend helping our community understand the changing landscape of learning? If we want to change the system, then we need to be prepared to change the whole system. We need to help our school communities understand […]