What's your focus teaching or learning?
As long as we continue to think of technology as a tool for learning we are going to get caught in this circle of…
Tag: 21st Century Learning
What's your connection speed?
Can you name the software that was used to meet this outcome? Does it matter? Or will the students be able to take that…
Can you become Creative?
Or another question: How do we create creative people?
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? My version
(Full Disclosure: It comes on right after American Idol on our TV so watch it by default….I’m in China our choices are limited! 🙂…
Fourth Graders know
What interested me the most is in all six of the classes, as soon as I start talking about technology they all get that…
Why Not take a risk?
If I was asking my teachers to take a risk in their own classroom, then I felt I needed to show that I too…
Moving from Consumer to Producer of Information
(A blog post I wrote to 11th graders and to myself) Some interesting research has come out in the past couple of months that…
When blogs are just what your school does
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…
Allowing students to teach
We have smart kids! We need to be open to learning the how from them, but as educators we are paid to know the…
Evaluating Technology Use in the Classroom
Evaluating the use of technology in a classroom environment is not something most administrators are trained to do. It is easy to walk into…