As part of the #EduroChallenge leading up to our Micro-Credential program launch, we wanted to pay tribute to the most important educators in a student’s lives…their Parents. Nobody has more influence over a child in their lives than their parent/guardian does…and raising a child today is different. Digital Parenting is No Longer Optional It’s a hard realization I find for […]
Last week I had the pleasure of running a lab site in an Enumclaw 5th Grade class as part of my work with the district over the past couple of years. It’s a lesson that I first taught in 2009 and is still as relevant today as it was then. The students were working on opinion writing. They were writing […]
I woke up this morning to find the following Tweet from Jeremy Brueck: This line between digital literacy and networked literacy is a fine one…but one I think for ed tech people is worth exploring. I first started thinking about the distinction between digital literacy and networked literacy after reading the Writing in the 21st Century document produced by the […]
I was co-teaching earlier this week in a 7th grade environments class. The students were signing up for the wiki they were going to be using to do a project. One boy in the class created his username as: tommmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyy!!!! Why? When do we start teaching students about self branding? I understand that part of this is a maturity issue, […]