So the Google Voice pilot went very well! I have just enough time left in the school year to do a live assignment and see how well the students do. My big issue now is, assessing high enough on the taxonomy scale to get a true picture of what they’ve learned.…
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Yes, I believe you will be hooked and nothing will stop you from presenting even more in the future, as long as you want to do it.
Remember my penultimate slide: Don't just dream it. Do it!…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As mentioned in a previous post, several colleagues joined me in the Coursera/University of Toronto course, “Aboriginal Worldviews and Education” back in February and March. (an excellent course by the way – fodder for another post) Our cohort tried to get together online and by teleconference for a weekly discussion.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In Yr 7 we’ve been learning more about factors, multiples, prime numbers etc. It was the perfect opportunity to introduce kids to a great app called DigitWhiz. Yes, it covers the basic operations of multiplication and division, but unlike a lot of other Maths apps, it includes a lot more that is useful to secondary school students , all in one free app.…
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Let’s keep this relatively short and simple shall we? I’ve spent just a month shy of 10 years in education, and I feel as though some days I know just about as much as I did on day one in the teaching field.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In math, it’s called the transitive property:
If A=B and B=C, then A=C.
And it jumped off my iPhone screen this morning while I was reading my morning stream of tweets on Twitter.
I spend a lot of time thinking about peer instruction with clickers, like this, this and this, which naturally leads to discussions about “flipping the classroom.”…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of the greatest challenges we face in today’s rapidly changing, tech-saturated educational landscape is the decrease of physical classrooms based on traditional notions of localized, embodied community. Emerging online classrooms mirror digital, distributed modes ……
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Thanks to the lovely folks at NW eLearn, I am honored to share my research via webinar. Just as a fair warning to my readers, one of the audience members at the ATL conference said my presentation was like “learning on Red Bull.”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My colleague Laurel asked me some questions in her comments on my last blog post.
How have you shifted from being a “stranded evangelist” to a “connected educator”? What have you learned from the people around you? How has your practice shifted as you listen to the teachers with diverse perspectives?…
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