Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21611336@N00/3723710203 I am concerned both about my brain and my student’s brains. My brain due to aging and devices since each year I seem to remember less unless I have it on a device. Then of course I need to remember what device it is on. This is one reason why Evernote, Google Drive, [...]
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/21317398@N04/6243312715 As I work on writing comments for my students during our teacher workday, I found a link to Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk in a shared Google Doc from the English Departments Retreat last week. I had not seen it so with two browsers open, one for comments, and one for soul food, I [...]
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Image: Apple\’s Eyes Studio / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Over the last few weeks, more students are looking for audiences for their writing and stop animation movies. Mostly the avenue chosen is to send out email messages individually to students and teachers or to a conference where all students can read the request. I think this is a [...]
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‘Studying’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/90151774@N00/3349594759 I have blogged in the last year about how I wanted to flip my classroom with posts called When Students Teach Themselves and When Students Run the Class. Both highlight for me how I must adapt the ways I have always taught to the current culture of learning. I am helping to lead a [...]
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I mentioned this organizational structure yesterday as a way to reconfigure, if you will, a classroom when everyone is connected. http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/06/21/the-digital-learning-farm-flyer/ Also good is the Globally Connected Learning http://langwitches.org/blog/2011/06/22/guide-to-globally-connected-learning-flyer/ The concept of digital learning is also in need of understanding. The image above is from a great post on Fluency21 which is a group [...]
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At our October Faculty Meeting I gave a presentation entitled “Motivating the Elephant” based on the book Switch by the Heath Brothers. See this post for that presentation. At our next faculty meeting, my presentation will be on Directing the Rider which is the second strategy for preparing an organization for a switch. The feedback [...]
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‘The Calatrava Eye’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/22746515@N02/5354806024 We started the Middle School Digital Device Project on October 17th when Ms. Donnelly’s class were given MacBooks for use. The iPads were handed out to Ms. Williams’ class on October 24th. After the first week students were able to take them home if we had the signed form back. I have [...]
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/4848880460 The New York Times Article, A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute has started many conversations this week at school and on the Internet. I think we need to keep our focus on what schools are about: Learning. Granted, as the Digital Learning Coordinator, I favor access to digital tools and am presently helping [...]
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Image: ‘With the Wings of a Bird’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/26405526@N00/2114890998 I knew I wanted to try new methods of teaching and learning with my new sixth grade Digital Learning class. For the price of $39.95, I set up an Edublog for us to use to reflect and share our learning experiences. We just did our first [...]
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‘Manage Project‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/13316988@N00/2266171847 My Digital Learning course, formerly called Foundations of Technology, for 5th grade are developing their online portfolio that could live outside of both the classroom and our school. My goal is to give the students an opportunity to share their work and reflect on what it means to them. The idea of parents or other [...]
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