(if you don’t get the pun, please see A Modest Proposal)
…we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
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Loading...Teacher Leadership
When I reflect on the term teacher leadership, what comes to mind are these key ideas:
learner, visionary, passionate, committed, highly engaged, innovative, and reflective
Teacher leadership is about impacting the learning culture and functioning as change agents in your classroom, school, or district. …
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On Sunday, June 3, 2012, I participated in an on-line discussion hosted by the Webheads network and met Curt Bonk, a Professor at Indiana University, and author of The World is Open. Curt talked about Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success.…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today a regarding whether or not basic HTML and CSS should be included in every digital media literacy toolset. That is a mouthful. Having a literacy with two modifiers and and suffix really complicates the question. I could try to address the idea of what it means to be literate, or digital literacy, or media literacy, etc etc, but what really grabbed me was the toolset.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...At the end of last term, June, I began to think that if I really want to work together with my learners, help them be motivated and committed to learning English, and above all, I believe we are a team, they need to be part of the design of the syllabus.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Recently I complete a course offered at the University of Saskatchewan titled: ETAD802, Foundations of Educational Technology. That’s a mouthful, like most other courses I have been taking. It’s not just a mouthful though, it was a monster of a course (in a great way).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As promised here’s the summary of our adventures in New York and Niagara Falls for those who have been following our Journey on Twitter and Instagram.
As mentioned in my previous post:
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The tragedy at Penn State is difficult to handle on numerous levels and unlike many national voices, I don’t feel in a position to nor would it be helpful if I were to judge the facts or people of the situation.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Most of my upcoming posts are going to be on the topic of game principles for instructional design. This post reflects on my experience with simple games in our school and how this topic is going to be wildfire in the best K-12 systems very soon.…
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