I have a lot of random thoughts about the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference this year….so if these seem like disconnected ideas/ramblings/thoughts….it’s because they are. The first morning we were here, I picked up the Newspaper that was slipped under our door and flipped through it real quick. The front page had the Prime Minister of Malaysia talking about the general election […]
If I was asking my teachers to take a risk in their own classroom, then I felt I needed to show that I too was willing to take a risk with my presentation and push myself to try something new.
(A blog post I wrote to 11th graders and to myself) Some interesting research has come out in the past couple of months that looks at the use of social networks and blogging and the trends that are happening in society today. Nearly half of 18-24 year old social networkers (45%) told Future Laboratory researchers that if they had 15 […]
I told you this blog was one to follow, and have your students follow as well. The TOK blog (Theory of Knowledge) is up and running and the kids are already posting stuff that I’m bookmarking left and right. Take this as an example. Sou an 11th Grader who gives suggestions for how to handle your online presence. With all […]
We had a great conversation last Thursday night on the Shifting Our Schools (SOS) podcast. We ran about an hour and one thing I love about running my own podcast is I get to determine the length. As long as the conversation is good…let audacity roll! 🙂 At one point in the show we start talking about teachers and what […]
I have been working with Carol Jordan a science teacher here at my school for most of the year on different projects. At the beginning of the year she invited me into her IB Theory of Knowledge class (TOK) to give a presentation on the Connectivism Theory of Learning. From that moment on we’ve been working together on a number […]
I share with you and e-mail I sent out to the staff at my school today. Yes, I know that most of what I write would not fly in your school/district. But then again, we are a private international school…things just work differently here, and that’s a good thing! I strongly believe that international education will change and adapt faster […]
Yes we have over 600 student blogs running here in Shanghai. From grades 4-12, students are blogging up a storm. In fact we’re getting to a point that the blogs are part of just what students do here.
A Kiwi friend of mine sent this my way today. Not sure if others have seen this, but new on my radar. High-tech hardware solution provider Axiotron today introduced two new configurations of the Modbookâ„¢, its award-winning tablet Mac computer for creative professionals. The new configurations, available immediately, include 2.1 GHz or 2.4 GHz Intel Coreâ„¢ 2 Duo processors and […]
In my Day in the Life video I say this a couple of times and I can’t stress it enough to education technology teachers/integrators out there that the time you spend in the hallways is time well spent. This morning I was on my way to get a cup of coffee as per my usual morning routine. I have three […]