Twitter. It’s a social media tool used by millions daily for many different reasons. No question, twitter is powerful. When I ask ASPS students (grade 7 and 8) how and when they use twitter their responses are most often connected … Continue reading …
La vita piena
La riflessione mi è giunta come risposta a un reale bisogno.
Per questo ringrazio e ripropongo.
La leggenda (materna) narra che io sia nata in una freddissima giornata nevosa, con un paio di occhi bellissimi e una massa di capelli stranissimi: per tutto il primo anno anno di vita, sembra che stessero a posto solo con il sapone… Il problema, probabilmente, era quello di volerli piegare seguendo un verso che non era il loro E così, dovetti aspettare di cotonarmi i capelli per una festa di Carnevale di adolescenti, ^_^ per capirne finalmente la vera natura e comportarmi di conseguenza.
A micro look at microbit
A lot of micro:bits from the BBC arrived in the centre where I work, ready to be distributed to North Lanarkshire schools. I’ve taken the opportunity to break one out and have a wee play.
The devices are aimed at secondary so outside my wheelhouse, but I could not resist a wee play.…
Radio #EDUtalk at #OER16
Last week I took the edutalk mic to #OER16: Open Culture The 7th Open Educational Resources Conference.
The idea was to broadcast & podcast the keynote and also get some conversations between various participants.
Broadcasting the keynotes worked well. Getting folk lined up for a chat proved more of a challenge.…
Google Forms for Record Keeping and Formative Assessment
I should probably take my own advice more often. Today I’ll try.
Every time I use Google Forms, I wonder why I don’t use them more often. Ten years ago when I first tried reading workshop (inspired by Nancie Atwell‘s In the Middle) I had clipboards and several trees worth of paper charts to keep track of student reading.…
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Better Together: BCHS with the SKCAC
I have the best job in the whole world. This afternoon I was able to I support my students in sharing their passion for social justice . Our BCHS Youth Champions in partnership the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Center developed the following PSA inorder to promote the power of a positive community.…
Back to Class
It’s doesn’t seem that long since I posted about leaving the classroom and now it looks like it is time to go back!
In the latest round of council savings my post has been deleted. In fact the whole team I work has been too (posts not people).…
Assessing Writing Through Speech to Text?
Flip or flip not, there is no try to read Chapter 3 before class please pretty please
Every learner needs to build new concepts into their own pre-existing knowledge. That’s the constructivist model for teaching and learning and ultimately, I believe, the rationale and justification for active learning. Like I said on Twitter a few weeks ago,
…“Active learning” means *every* student has opps to practice expert-like behaviors, not just select few who raise hands or voices.