You’re right technology is ruining students: The students threw away their notebooks and started blogs. These blogs became, in essence, open notebooks in which students were willing to learn in public. Students in one class put together a blog that was read by more than 8,000 people around the world. (How many people read your …
Really enjoying our conversations about Facebook, Twitter and blogging! Hope these conversatons continue!
It’s always hard for me to begin the conversation about blogging with people. When they ask me what I write about, I have to say, “I write a lot about education and just things that I read that I want to talk about.” It’s not a science. It’s not a formula. It’s just me and …
A peak inside the life of a teacher: The reality is that most of us who work in education definitely do not have quiet lives. Depending on the level you teach, you may have a group of students following you down the hallway at any given time. Being an educator is a great way to …
As Sam Harrelson and I gear up for our presentation on Saturday on Connecting via Social Media, we have both been confronted with the question, “Where do we begin?” Do we start with the professional benefits that we have both experienced via Social Media? Do we tout the way that connecting to other professionals from …
It’s hard when you read this: With the rise of technology, the democratization of information, and emerging platforms that allow anyone to teach and learn anytime, anywhere, it would be easy to say that things are looking grim for thetraditional teacher (see last Friday’s post). And then you talk to teachers who are so busy setting …
Teaching isn’t about a linear train ride starting the year at one place and reaching your destination by May with station stops of assessment along the way. There are days that your students look at you and say: I don’t know that word. I’ve never seen that word. Learning is organic and dynamic and unpredictable. …
Happy 1 year old Birthday, iPad! I remember because I bought my iPad in April last year (when I actually got a tax refund…being a teacher without a classroom gets pretty expensive come April 17!). I am surprised at how many of the apps I have been using since day 1 and use almost daily. …
I didn’t want to go running today. I didn’t want to go as I changed into my running clothes. I didn’t want to go as I put up my hair. I didn’t want to go as I tied my shoes. I didn’t want to go. But I did. And as my body creaked and ached …
