Some times you need to throw out the container with the leftovers
It’s been said many times: If you give every student a laptop but do not fundementally change the way you teach than the power…
Category: Teaching & Learning
Posts on classroom practice, student engagement, assessment, and how learning happens in schools and online.
A Year in the High School
As the school year draws to a close (one week left for us here in Thailand) I find myself reflecting on my first year…
Building Your Google Resume
Last week I was asked to give a talk to our high school students about CyberSafety. A yearly talk to remind them about the…
Flipping for Mr. Bennett
brian bennett The more presentations I give and see the more it takes to impress me. I’m constantly looking for that teacher that is…
Standards and Benchmarks are Crap
You know when you’ve been thinking something for awhile but it’s not very popular so you never say anything…..and then there’s a conversation…
Learning through Presentations
“How many of you have done the 18 minute, right before class, copy and paste, plagiarized, bullet point, turn and read off the screen…
Wiktionary in the EAL Classroom
My favorite part of the CoETaIL program that Kim and I run is coming up this semester. The 5th and final course for the…
Machines won't Replace You, Communities Will
Last Friday I had the pleasure of Skyping into a school in Singapore to talk about my TEDx Talk I did back in September. The principal…
Fishbowls and Chat-rooms
I wanted to follow up on the reverse instruction lessons I’ve been working with teachers on.You can read the first blog posts here on…
Reverse Instruction – U.S. History
U.S. History has to be one of the hardest classes to teach at an international school. When at best half your students would be…