If these questions are important, what are your answers?
- What are the 21st Century skills all students will use in the future? - Who should we recruit as teachers so all students learn these skills? - When is the learning of these skills most likely to occur? In other words, what does learning of [...]
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Students Learning 21st Century Skills? Yes we can! Week of November 10, 2008
November 11th, 2008 · No Comments
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K12Online08: Kicking It Up a Notch ~ Games in Education
November 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
What do I know about games in education? What do I think I know? What do I want or need to know?
There is much to enjoy and learn from in this K12 Online Conference presentation by Sylvia Martinez, titled Games in Education. Sylvia knows this territory well and her presentation is the perfect overview for [...]
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O’s for Obama
November 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
There is a group on facebook that is advocating for the election of Barack Obama by inviting people to create images with O’s to show support for Obama for president. Here’s my remix of creative commons photos for Barack Obama. Credit for the original photos follows the image.
Flickr Creative Commons Photos I used to create [...]
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Taylor Mali on Poetry Slams and Teaching
November 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Ewan McIntosh’s post on Taylor Mali prompted me to look for more of Mali’s work. Ewan links to a dramatic reading by Taylor of the poem What Teachers Make; in the end, a difference. During my browsing I found another poem delivered by Mali on teaching, titled Undivided Attention. It’s embedded in this interview about [...]
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A Time of Drastic Change, and A Time to Move On for Learning
October 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven…
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
If you were limited to one sentence and an “If…,then….” rhetorical structure, how would you compose your “theory in action?”
I presented yesterday at a statewide STEM V Summit (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with online help from [...]
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Problem Challenge: News Reporting in the Future?
October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
If we have to face a future without newspapers, can you imagine how we might find innovative ways to maintain access to the authoritative reporting by respected journalists at every level of society?
Will Richardson posted about his reactions to a future without newspapers, Mourning Old Media, Mourning Old Media Teachers.
I had heard through NPR of [...]
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Painting the 21st Century Technology Landscape
October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Annamaria Pisari Schrimpf
Director of Educational Technology
Winchester Public Schools
President, MassCUE
October 22, 2008
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Bill Daggett 10.21.08
October 21st, 2008 · No Comments
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Web 2.0 Tools and Pedagogy ~ Educational Leaders and Influential People
September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Are the educational leaders in your community actively learning about, using and promoting web 2.0 tools and pedagogy as natural complements to skillful teaching and learning?
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So School Begins Again
September 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
To all the educators across the world: What does this September mean to you?
In September 1970 I began my career as an educator in Massachusetts as a high school English teacher in a parochial (Catholic) school for girls in South Boston, Cardinal Cushing High School. Subsequently, I started school in September over the years in [...]
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