Have you ever had one of those moments where a thought pops into your head that just makes you laugh? I had one last night over microwave popcorn.
As I stood in front of the microwave waiting for the popcorn to finish I started thinking about kids today growing up …
In a recent article from eschool news talks about Yahoos approach to putting copyrighted books online, while at the same time appeasing publishers. Something Google hasnt been able to do.
My feeling is we are doing something new here,” Mandelbrot said. “We are building a collaborative effort that will make …
I have been really excited the past couple of days as more and more teachers here about the Blogs we have started here at the school and the upstart of our Moodle site. I have teachers approaching me asking what it is, how they do that, etc. What a great …
Just got back from a relaxing weekend on the Island of Hainan. Took some time to catch up on some reading that Ive been meaning to do.
Ian Jukes
Education at the Crossroads
Moving the Educational Debate
Beyond Technology to the New Literacy/Shifting Gears Workshop
Marc Prensky
Digital Natives, Digital …
My 5th graders have been blogging for about 2 weeks now. As much as I understand and read about this generation of digital kids, they still amaze me. I use the Blogmeister software which has been a great and easy way to manage my student blog entries. Today I came …
Last week I put the final touches on our new moodle site for my school as well as set up a blog sub domain to house the hopefully expanding blog sites. Our first blog is a literacy blog where teachers will post and comment with a literacy specialist in Beijing.…
An article on September 22 from techlearning.com looks back at predictions made about technology and education. Its amazing how close and how far off some of the perditions were. An interesting article to read and ponder.…
A recent article at missoulian.com discusses at what age should schools start teaching typing. Some schools wait until as late as 5th or 6th grade to teach typing, while other schools start at grade 2.
The quandary is: Are we creating a world of hunt-and-peck keyboard users by waiting too …
For the 5th Wednesday in a row now I have sent out what I call Wacky Wednesdays Websites (WWW). This is basically an e-mail to teachers explaining some sort of tech tip and a couple web sites I feel might be interesting to them.
I started by only sending the …
In a recent article: Mind the Gap, Jeffrey Piontek writes:
We must refocus our efforts to address the new sets of skills and deficiencies that children of the information age are bringing into our schools. Whether or not we use computers to do this is irrelevant. We must be …
