In my research and reading, there is a one absolute certainty in creating student success… Student engagement. So how does student engagement start? By creating and building relationships. This idea that educators have been fostering for years (it’s why you still remember where you sat in third grade!) is now entering the business world: Jeff …
More and more sites and blogs are talking about the Apple announcement that will concern education on January 19. The only statement from Apple is that the announcement will be about education and textbooks. While I anxiously await for the announcement, I tend to agree with Ian Quillen who suggests: The bigger question, according to Mashable, is …
When I declared my elementary education major, I pestered my friends with questions about their schooling experience (even asking them to give me their favorite children’s book if they were going to give me a birthday present) because I was desperate to know what their teachers had done to create a lasting impact. Personally, I …
Unfortunately, this type of story is not uncommon: Josh Pickett had a problem: his teacher couldn’t mark his homework. The cause of the problem: his teacher, who had set his Information and Communication Technology (ICT) class the challenge of “design and create a multimedia product”, had expected people to come up with a PowerPoint presentation. …
If you have been in the classroom for a number of years, odds are that integrating technology into the classroom was not a part of your teacher education program. But Digital Is. So rather than fighting it, why not take the opportunity to teach yourself how students are learning. Students are using the internet to …
With NCLB’s 10 year anniversary, the Obama administration is looking for a way out. Reauthorization would cause an outcry from teachers and administrators, so instead the federal government has offered a waiver program: The waiver plan has drawn a critical response from California state schools chief Tom Torlakson, whose office estimates that complying with the …
Many districts and principals are actively fighting against teachers facebooking with students. Is this restriction impeding student success and disconnecting the classroom from the interactive world that students engage on a daily basis? Yes. Yes, I Facebook with students. In fact, I accept every request they send my way, because it is an incredible way …
There is a countermovement of teachers who are encouraging digital literacy development in their classroom rather than falling prey to the standardization movement. What is this countermovment offering their students? Time to play. For early childhood specialist, play has always been considered an essential part of a child’s overall development, but some teachers are taking …
There is a mystery in the air about the Apple announcement that is coming. It is reported to not be about software, but rather to be about education and more specifically iTunesU. What do we know about Apple’s take on education? We know that Steve Jobs has been working closely with schools to create one-to-one …
I have been a part of the affiliate marketing network for about 6 months now, but being at Affiliate Summit changes that experience. Now there are faces and stories that literally flesh out twitter handles and blog posts. This is a community that is always tweaking, always searching, always challenging themselves toward something new. That …
