Blogs for Hillsboro
Excited to share these blogs with Hillsboro community tonight! Pastor Chris Adams Donald Miller The Village Church Christianity Today Wayfarer First Baptist Greenville Youth Siloam Health
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Education’s going mobile
McGraw Hill isn’t the only organization that is banking on the 2012-2013 going mobile: New on iTunes U: Find TEDTalks organized by subject area into courses, curated for students, educators and lifelong learners. In our initial course offering, explore such topics as “Creative Problem-Solving” … “Understanding Happiness” … “Climate Change” … where you’ll find great
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Do you feel the earth moving?
Do you feel the earth moving? McGraw Hill already has a line of five K-12 textbooks for the iPad 2 through iBooks 2 and over 50 iPad textbooks for higher education and the professional market through an app from partner firm Inkling, into which McGraw Hill Education has heavily invested. All of McGraw Hill’s iPad textbooks come alive thanks
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And schools are behind again
Schools are finding themselves on the other side of spending thousands of dollars on interactive whiteboards and now there is an interactive whiteboard that each student can hold in his or her hand rather than 25 students crowding around one. Who ultimately ends up on top has huge implications for educational technology leaders, who must
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What if schools were sets, publishing houses and art studios?
What if we taught students to create and to hone their own voices? What if we taught students to send their story out into the world? What if students got real feedback for telling their own stories? What if school actually helped students discover who they are? What if schools were sets, publishing houses, art
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Schools aren’t people; they are full of people
A school, finally: During the nine years I have been teaching at my public school, the school has received grades of D, C, B and finally this year we achieved an A. Next year, due to the state of Florida changing the grading standards (which they have done every year since they decided to grade
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Is your idea remarkable?
Incredible presentation on standing out: For the first 15 years of sliced bread, no one bought it. It’s about can you get your idea to spread or not? What we are living in is a century of difusion. Consumers don’t care about you, they have more choices than they ever have and less time.
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Walking the Tight Line of Writing Instruction
As a middle school writing teacher, it is hard to find the balance of providing enough support for your students and not stifling their natural ability to write. It would be easy to provide all students with step by step instructions on how to write in response to their reading or how to form an
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Digital Playtime
This page shows the common sequence I use when introducing students to new technology. The first step is the ‘play’ step, and I believe that play is an essential step for students learning new technologies. This step gives the students free reign to explore the new tools without having “serious work” to accomplish. This stage