While I was out at school yesterday I took a tour of the new media center that will be ready in 10 days time for the start of school. Now, I’ve mentioned before how fast they build things here in China and hopefully this will drive my point home even more. Remember everything you see here will be (we are […]
I’ve had a couple really good days of working lately. Getting excited for school to start and the more I work on the computer and learn new things, the more excited and more ideas I get for my classes this year. First off you’ll notice a new theme in place. Created by Ben at Binary Moon the theme Regulus caught […]
So I’m in my David Warlick mode at the moment after an uneventful flight back home to Shanghai (Uneventful is a good thing!). It’s 4:00am and of course I’m jet lagged, no better time to catch up on some of the reading I’ve missed in the last couple weeks. I have a laundry list of things I want to finish […]
It seems the only time I’ve had to blog this summer has been while on airplanes. Not exactly how I had my summer planned, but family and friends come first when you have a years worth of conversations to have in a 6 week period. So, another in flight blog entry from 36000 feet above the Pacific Ocean Before I […]
It’s been almost two weeks since my last post which has given me time to reflect and reload for the up and coming school year. My summer, as usual has been a busy one. I have not spent more than 4 nights in the same bed or same house since I got back to the states on June 27th. So […]
I have been surprised with the response that my NECC reflection received. I have to say I wasnÂ’t expecting to receive such supportive comments. I just keep thinking: Where do we go from here? While in the airport on my way to Richmond, Virginia to visit my grandfather who I havenÂ’t seen in 9 years I stopped by the magazine […]
My thoughts and feeling about my first NECC are mixed. Was I expecting too much? I was expecting to find a new conversation. A conversation that I feel needs to happen in education. A conversation that isn’t just about technology, but about the changing nature of our students, our classrooms, and our society. I found it in likely places with […]
Mark’s blog is edtechlife.com www.dimenxian.com a video game for learning algerbra What is Hard Fun? This kid called the work fun because it was hard rather than in spite of being hard.” (Seymour Papert) How do we make writing become hard fun? (Papert) Work is fun because it is hard John Dewey Experience and Education Democracy and Education Experimental Schools […]
Tim Wilson of the technosavvy.org site invited me to have a conversation about China and the state of blogging there as part of his technosavvy podcast he did live Thursday night. If you get a chance have a listen. The first part of the podcast is Sonny Portacio talking about geocaching which was a great conversation as well. Thanks Tim […]
25+ million kids blogging online We listened to Matthew Bischoff from www.matthewbischoff.com a 13 year old podcaster from 2004. We looked at Tess Will’s daughter’s weather book on flickr where 1000 people have viewed her book. building networks with these read/write tools is what students are already doing, why are we not using it in the classroom? It’s about imagination. […]