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.
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 …
“Reverse mentoring is a concept borne of the information age… Reverse mentoring asks the younger, technologically savvier youngsters to tutor or support the older generation in learning how to leverage social media, blogs, email, cloud-based services, and other tools that we now have at our disposal.” — Meredith Ely What if the most meaningful professional …
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“As educators, we are always looking for the best ways to help our students learn and retain the knowledge and skills they need in life,” said Adina Popa, technology resource teacher in Loudoun County Public Schools, Virginia. “We know student engagement is a key factor in that, and with a tool like Kinect, we are …
As I have been ticking through my to do list today, I’ve had my playlist on random. Every once and awhile, I’ll hear the voices of my students as they perform on “Element News” or other projects that we’ve done. Every once and awhile, I hear that song that we listened to what seemed like …
Although I am a huge advocate for digital literacy, what I do not advocate is how that looks in your classroom. I can tell you how it worked in one of my classrooms with one group of students and one school context, but that’s not your classroom and not your context. I can provide examples …
I have to admit that I often forget about #edchat on Tuesdays nights, but as I check Twitter I always check in on what people are talking about. I found this jewel last night from one of my favorite authors, Kylene Beers: Let’s stop hiding behind “best practice” label. We’re often behind in ed because …
My strong opinion about the importance of digital literacy is centered around the class experience that I had with my 5th graders as their technology teacher. I started the year with certain expectations that I wanted my students to understand. We started by explaining the importance of email accounts and the difference in how you …
We are often told to be ourselves or to be an open book, but there are cultural and societal expectations that tell us: It’s a trap! Don’t fall for it! Put up your walls! Protect yourself! What would happen if in life and business, if we were really open? TinyLetter did. Ugh. Dear TinyLetter users, …
As a middle school history and technology teacher, I found a huge disconnect between what my student were expected to do as readers and what they could do. I don’t mean that they were lazy. If anything my 5th graders were going above and beyond what I was asking them to do, so what happened? …
