My last full day in Shanghai before flying out tomorrow to Seattle. It’s also the first day of summer vacation, so as I try and wind down from school and gear up for the projects ahead of me this summer I opened up my RSS reader to catch up on some reading. When I clicked on Warlick’s A Magnetic Field […]
That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It I was hit this week with a TTWWADI right in my own teaching. It’s the end of the semester and so in TTWWADI fashion the students are creating web sites using Dreamweaver. The project includes everything we’ve been talking about this past semester. The only difference is the students have had a blog […]
My Superintendent: “I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.†This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a weeks. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment. However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we are trying […]
A Study on how laptops hinder learning made the front page of The International Educator newspaper that comes out monthly to overseas educators and schools. Jason Welker wrote a great article at U Tech Tips about it. First of all, to call this a “study†of the use of laptops inschools is inappropriate. A study with a sample size of […]
There is nothing like starting your week off with an e-mail from a teacher that simple says: “Moodle is not working…do you know why?†And then spending the next four days worried that you can’t fix it. It has been one of those weeks that I’ve relied on ‘just in time learning’ and my network of information to help me […]
I just left this comment on a message board with some pre-service teachers: What is more important to be adaptable or knowledgeable? (think dinosaurs) The word adaptable and adaptability have been floating around in my head for some time now and how they define what we are trying to do in the 21st century and why it is so hard […]
Yesterday I, along with about 10 other educators from my school, went to the first Apple seminar for international schools held here in Shanghai. Apple has sent a team here to “break into the international school market in Asia.” They are based in Beijing but travel around Asia promoting their products and what they can offer to schools who are […]
I wrote a blog entry over at techlearning yesterday called New ways to communicate talking about some of the new ways technology can impact learning in school. Wednesday I had a chance to try some distance learning out on my own. I work on two difference campuses that are, by taxi, about 2 hours apart. I’ve picked up a class […]
There’s been some talk around groups in the blogosphere. Some really good discussion happening over on Bud the Teacher’s blog. David Jakes had a great post as well. What’s got me thinking about groups is it’s the US that makes this place powerful not the YOU. Does Time Magazine have it wrong? The YOU, to me, is the people that […]