Digital Information Reading Strategies
Anyone who has been to any of my presentations in the past couple of years knows that I’m passionate about teaching search skills. Not…
Category: Teaching & Learning
Posts on classroom practice, student engagement, assessment, and how learning happens in schools and online.
Who Is Writing The Future?
Felicia Sobhani emailed me the other day. I did a presentation at her school, International School Turin, last October. It’s one of my favorite…
Does Your EQ Pass the Google Test?
I have been thinking a lot about questions lately and Jim Laney’s recent post brought some of my thinking to the forefront. Essential Questions…
1 Computer, 1 Document Camera
I was reading and commenting on COETAIL blogs when I came across this blog post from Julie. Julie and Gwen (a teacher and a librarian) work…
Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH
This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with some of the faculty at Western Washington University talking about reverse instruction…or…
Really? It’s My Job To Teach Technology?
Andrew Vicars, one of our COETAIL participants, wrote a blog post that I was going to leave a comment on but then it got…
6th – 8th Grade Search Lesson
In this lesson we will be teaching about domain extensions and the Google Search Syntax ‘site’: as well as how to turn on reading…
Start The Year By Teaching Search
As the new school year is upon us and I find myself not in a school for the first time since I started Preschool…
Lecture As Content Delivery Is Dead
I continue to think about how lectures are changing in our new connected world. My last blog post primed my thinking and thanks to…
The Evolution of the Lecture
In my last blog post a couple days ago I talked about lectures not being a bad thing. Both Will and I make livings now lecturing to people.…