“I have a student who says that he isn’t passionate about anything. I ask him what he’s interested in, and what he does outside of school, but the answer is always the same: nothing. What do I do with a kid like that?”…
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TL:DR: I think that the problems in embedding digital in learning are complex. Glow, which address the software part is the one that is closest to being solved.
On Sunday I got added to a twitter conversation that started with a tweet about glow use from Derek Roberson
…RM rep told us last week 9% teacher login rate.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today was the faculty and staff Welcome Back BBQ at UBC Okanagan. My Centre for Teaching and Learning had an information table among 25 or so other campus organizations. Always on the lookout to inject a little interaction and teaching and learning, I set up a laptop and i>clicker gear to survey my new colleagues about teaching:
Survey question: What do you think is the hardest part of teaching?
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...…You mean to tell me everything that happened was just so I would record a song for a Gregory Hines movie?
Michael McDonald, Yacht Rock (Episode 12)
If you’re affluent, we can do a much better job with you, we can make magic happen.
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There are probably 2 folk who have a slight interest in this rather geeky post. It does not have much to do with ICT in the classroom.
I’ve been using Martin Hawksey‘s twitter archiver for a while now. This archived my tweets to Google Drive and made them available online.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In an attempt to reframe effort in the classroom I’m trying to sift through the more traditional elements of effort (attentiveness, participation, compliance, focus, organization) and save the learning kernels after the chaff has drifted away. In my SBL and TTOG classroom I’m finding the learning outcomes that help students see the reason we tried to value effort by awarding points.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Like many educators, I’m trying to develop a more student-centred classroom that focuses on learning, skills, and mindset more than grades. One of the struggles that I see shared among teachers making such changes is how to handle effort. The quick response to questions of effort in outcome or standard focused classrooms is that the outcome is what matters and that effort will show in the outcome.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...How Your Character Affect In Financial Management? Studies indicate that the way we deal with aspects related to spending money vary depending on our personalities. It is us who skimped and another lavish and third moderate. He has Author Ray Linder in his book, “What do I do Bncode” dividing the figures from this perspective, the four major categories, the following review of these categories and how they impact on our way of managing the financial affairs: Top Binary Option Robots
How your character affect in management of your financial affairs?…
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…Top / Featured Image: A mashup of many random Monopoly game parts found on The Google (images search). Most were not openly licensed, and I freely admit taking them to remix into something new and commercially unviable. I am so guilty of theft.
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A classroom, like any other social group will have popular pupils, the ones who get heard most by other pupils. I guess a teachers job is to encourage participation for all learners.
We have to think if software companies are the best people to curate our information.…
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