My last full day in Shanghai before flying out tomorrow to Seattle. It’s also the first day of summer vacation, so as I try and wind down from school and gear up for the projects ahead of me this summer I opened up my RSS reader to catch up on some reading. When I clicked on Warlick’s A Magnetic Field […]
Yesterday Mr. Hossack’s class of 5th graders got to take part in something new and cool. They had a video Skype call with a 7th grade class in Los Angles, California. Barbara Barreda contacted me a couple weeks ago and we started planning. Of course planning didn’t go to smoothly on our end. We are two days from ending school […]
I stopped by the EduBloggerCon web site to make sure I hadn’t missed any information about the upcoming event. I took a look at the attending page and for the first time really stopped to look through the names of everyone that is going to be there. I can’t believe I actually get to meet all these people in person. […]
Some interesting conversations have come out of my last post “Goodbye to your job.“ Now do I seriously thing that the Microsoft Surface is going to make teachers obsolete? No, but I do believe a product like the Microsoft Surface is going to push teachers to rethink education. Especially if students are already telling me “You won’t have a job.” […]
I’ve showed this video to 3 classes now: Afterwards I ask each class “What does this mean for education” And each class responds: “No need for teachers anymore.” Actually one class said “Goodbye to your job!” Interesting response I think. [tags]microsoft surface[/tags] Technorati Tags: microsoft surface
With a week to go until we fly back to the States for the summer, NECC is coming ever closer. Thought I’d post what I’m thinking about at this stage. Of course all this can change, and as you can see there are some overlaps. Either way some great sessions I’m looking at attending.Sunday, June 245:45-7:00pm Opening KeynoteLocation: GWCC Murphy […]
My principal sent us a document to fill out as an end of the year summative self assessment. I thought I would use the same documents here as a summative report of my year. Reflecting is always a good thing and I encourage you to take these same questions and do a summative self assessment as well. Can I suggest […]
So people often ask me what is Twitter and why do you twit? Well I think theartguy found it yesterday: Time for bed. I’ll “see” you in the morning, fellow lurkers in this virtual teacher’s lounge! When I read this twit, it hit me. This is what twitter has become for many…for us I think. A virtual teacher’s lounge were […]
Was trying to add a flickr picture to a post today and found out that flickr was down. Headed over to the flickr blog where they give these latest stats: Miscellaneous stats to keep you entertained while we wait: * Our networking gear moves 12,000 photos a second — at peak, that’s 2,654,208,000 bits each second (8:20 PM) * We […]
Part of a comment left by Catherine Hiltz on Embedded Technology I think that the first step needs to involve creating a better understanding of educational paradigm shift. Perhaps this needs to be done by the provincial departments or at the division level. Without the philosophical background/understanding, I think that perhaps most educators will continue to flounder with tech. I […]