AboutContact365 ProjectGaming as LearningMy ClassroomWebmailFeatured content«»26SeptemberTech integration won’t make teaching easier. It just makes it easier for students to do amazing things.This is a cropping ruler: It’s pretty low tech. If you’ve ever done any work with photo editing, you may be more familiar with it in this form: When I started advising yearbooks in 2002, my staff had to measure and crop each of their photos by using an old fashioned cropping ruler and a [...]Read full article10JuneConnections MatterQuality teaching and learning is about creating meaningful connections. In a peak learning experience, students connect to themselves, their peers, teachers, experts, and artifacts. Those connections can lead to impressive results and immeasurable ripples of student learning.  A single connection, made possible by combining free technology with the work of one remarkable student, completely changed [...]Read full article20AprilHow to get rid of comments and related videos on YouTubeYouTube is a great resource for bringing the real world into your classroom and having students publish and share their work. However, many teachers are hesitant to visit YouTube with classes because comments displayed under videos and the related videos that display on the side of the screen can be unpredictable and distracting at best [...]Read full article19April21st Century Classroom community building – Design a logo for yourselfDesign – whether it’s artistic design, designing solutions to problems, or designing interactions – will be increasingly important mindset for my students. Thinking of this new reality, I wanted to play with the concept of creating a personal brand or logo with my students as a community building activity.Read full article16AprilTeach students how to ask their own questions“The ability to ask the right question is the single most important skill.” -Clay Parker CEO of BOC Edwards Chemical Engineering In a tremendous talk on the purpose of education, Noam Chomsky explains that, “The highest goal in life is to inquire and to create; to search the riches of the past and try to [...]Read full article13April
The Hunger Games as a metaphor for high stakes standardized testing
The Hunger Games is actually a pretty fitting metaphor for high stakes standardized testing. Granted, there’s a big difference between testing and blood sport, but the similarities start becoming to eerie to ignore.
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In Command, out of Control
Meeting expectations is boring. I’ve decided to allow my students to amaze me by relinquishing Control of my classroom and focusing on staying in Command instead. Could this shift in mindset work in your classroom?
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How would you start the conversation?
After getting the opportunity to talk with a group of student-teachers who are just a month away from graduation, a few of their question