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I love how things tie together sometimes — without any intention on my part, connections just randomly appear while I browse. Yesterday morning, I watched the following video and immediately bookmarked it as one of my new favourites. Then, this morning, I stumbled across a NY Times article: Growing Up Digital: Wired for . . . → Read More: Is distraction really the issue?  “Collaborate or Die!” This is one of the chapter titles in Curtis J. Bonk’s recent book The World is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education. (The book is fabulous by the way!) Well … I believe we have some work to do out there. Before going back to school last year, I spent most . . . → Read More: We all share = We all learn I just watched the following video clip and it reminded me of a book I recently read – Drive by Daniel H. Pink. At work, at home, at school … what is the secret of motivation? How do we find it in ourselves and encourage it in others? More to the point as teachers, . . . → Read More: “Lifelike Pedagogy” and motivation While casually browsing around the net this morning with my morning coffee, I discovered “Including Samuel”. It’s incredibly heart-warming and inspiring, and will effectively erase any doubts that anyone could possibly have about the benefits of full inclusion in the classroom. I’m just going to let the following video speak for itself: Read . . . → Read More: Inclusion: ‘the last frontier of desegregation’ I’ve always enjoyed working in an online environment (well before I got into teaching), and so the thought had crossed my mind that I would, at some point, want to teach in an online environment. But, the more I learn the more questions I have. Based on what I’ve seen in the classroom, how would the . . . → Read More: My first Online Learning Environment “Educators, Technology and 21st Century Skills: Dispelling Five Myths – A Study on the Connection Between K–12 Technology Use and 21st Century Skills” — a report just released by Walden University — offers up some interesting statistics based on a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. educators. First, it provides a summary of the five myths the . . . → Read More: New Research Report on Educators, Technology, and 21st Century Skills Over the last few days, I’ve been watching the flurry of Twitter posts coming out of the New Literacies Institute conference that’s been taking place in Massachusetts this week. Quite frankly, I’ve had moments when the amount of information (and the number of browser windows open on my computer) has been pretty overwhelming, so . . . → Read More: New Literacies: What’s “new”, what’s “literacies”? During our Father’s Day barbecue yesterday, there were three generations sitting together on the patio. I sat back and took a moment to soak it in, and that’s when my “teacher eyes” saw it clearly. The two young 20-somethings were doing something the rest of us were not: while they talked and laughed, they were also texting under . . . → Read More: What is digital literacy? Over the last few days, I’ve been doing some ‘online stumbling’ — randomly coming across writers being playful with words. It’s been a lot of fun to read them/listen to them. It got me thinking about how we so often forget that words, just for their own sake, can be fun. I wonder … how often do students find . . . → Read More: Encouraging Students to Play with Words I found a great website this morning and I wanted to share: To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary. Not only does it list a number of events taking place in honour of the book, from June through to September, but it also offers links to Teachers’ Resources, Book Clubs, Twitter postings, and an audio recording . . . → Read More: To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary! |
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