Quick Guide to Web 2.0 Services [HANDOUT]
As a guy who has written two books about using technology in schools (see here and here) and who regularly delivers two-day workshops on teaching with technology (see here), one of the questions that...
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Over the past few years, I've become convinced that today's kids are best motivated as learners when they are tackling a real-world issue in a meaningful way. That's why my #sugarkills blog and my...
View ArticleThree Tips for Building Teacher Buy In
A close friend who works in a leadership role in a local school asked me an interesting question this week. "I just want to build something that teachers can buy-in to that will help kids," she said....
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Blogger's Note:I read a John T. Spencer bit a few weeks back that touched a bunch of emotions. That's led to a bit of unvarnished truth that I wanted to process here in a post that is decidedly light...
View ArticleTechnology Professional Development Scenarios
Let's start with a simple truth: Schools have limited budgets and every time that we make careless spending choices, we tie our own hands behind our backs. As a result, I've worked HARD over the past...
View ArticleAre Grades Utterly Useless?
One of my all-time favorite assertions about grading in schools comes from Grant Wiggins. He writes:"The most ubiquitous form of evaluation, grading, is so much a part of the school landscape that we...
View ArticleIs High School Academic Purgatory?
Blogger's Note: My thinking here is unpolished. I'm wrestling with the time-honored notion that one of the primary purposes of high school is to prepare kids for college. As a teacher, that's always...
View ArticleHow Engaged ARE Your Students?
Let's start with a simple truth, y'all: Student engagement matters. When kids care about the lessons that they are learning, they are WAY more likely to master the kinds of essential skills, content...
View ArticleThe REAL Handcuffs Holding Us Back
In a recent bit over on his blog, my buddy Tony Baldasaro argued that the decisions schools make are often designed to support the system rather than to support students or to advance learning. He writes:
View ArticleWalking Moral Tightropes is NOT a Reform Strategy
Late last week, I wrote a piece titled How Testing Will Change What I Teach Next Year. In it, I detail the 48 DAYS that I spent teaching high level skills -- things like interpreting nonfiction text,...
View ArticleTeaching Nonfiction Reading Skills in the Science Classroom [ACTIVITY]
I don't have a ton of time to write today -- I've spent the past week teaching and learning alongside of some really progressive thinkers in Australia -- so I figured I'd share a few handouts that I've...
View ArticleHow Engaged ARE Your Students?
Let's start with a simple truth, y'all: Student engagement matters. When kids care about the lessons that they are learning, they are WAY more likely to master the kinds of essential skills, content...
View ArticleTwo Important Reminders for Digital Leaders
In a time when technology is drastically changing the way that we work, learn, and play, it is essential that school leaders have a clear plan for driving digital change in their classrooms, districts...
View ArticleThree Tips for Building Teacher Buy In
A close friend who works in a leadership role in a local school asked me an interesting question this week. "I just want to build something that teachers can buy-in to that will help kids," she said....
View ArticleWhat Do You Want From Me?
Blogger's Note:I read a John T. Spencer bit a few weeks back that touched a bunch of emotions. That's led to a bit of unvarnished truth that I wanted to process here in a post that is decidedly light...
View ArticleWhat Seth Doesn't Know about Schools
Poking through my feed reader last Friday, I stumbled across this great Ted talk by digital pioneer and provocateur Seth Godin.
View ArticleHow Engaged ARE Your Students?
Let's start with a simple truth, y'all: Student engagement matters. When kids care about the lessons that they are learning, they are WAY more likely to master the kinds of essential skills, content...
View ArticleThe REAL Handcuffs Holding Us Back
In a recent bit over on his blog, my buddy Tony Baldasaro argued that the decisions schools make are often designed to support the system rather than to support students or to advance learning. He writes:
View ArticleQuick Guide to Web 2.0 Services [HANDOUT]
As a guy who has written two books about using technology in schools (see here and here) and who regularly delivers two-day workshops on teaching with technology (see here), one of the questions that...
View ArticleTechnology Professional Development Scenarios
Let's start with a simple truth: Schools have limited budgets and every time that we make careless spending choices, we tie our own hands behind our backs. As a result, I've worked HARD over the past...
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