How To Use Gaming To Make Students Earn Technology at School
Not long ago I wrote a post concerning a new plan for managing when and how students access technology. This plan is based-on a boarding school model, where year 6-10 go home on the weekends, while the...
View ArticleHow To Increase Your Chances Of Finding A Job In Education
Ron Chernow is a master biographer. His style can make even the mundane task of describing an American icon’s search for employment interesting: “Despite incessant disappointment, he doggedly pursued a...
View ArticleIt’s time to review the ‘Teacher’s iPad Checklist’
There are a lot of horror stories about implementing education technology using iPads. The Los Angeles Unified School District situation is still being resolved. They had big goals and lofty ambition...
View Article6 Actionable Reasons To Watch Yourself Teach
A pit in my stomach is hardly a way to describe my anxiety. The feeling I initially had upon learning that my Interactive Television classes would be taped is more accurately analogous to ingesting a...
View Article10 New Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers
Several summers ago, I wrote 10 Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers in response to a request from a Summer Workshop participant. Over the past few weeks, this post has been re-circulated on Social...
View Article10 Ways to use Instagram in the classroom
Instagram isn’t just a platform for selfies, business promotions, and cute animals. With a little creativity, you can bring the visual power of photos and videos to your classroom, weave them into your...
View ArticleBYOD and Printing: What You Should Be Doing
Why are you printing if you are BYOD teacher? Printing and writing are not connected. This is something that everyone in a BYOD program needs to be aware of. Here are the rules you should follow and...
View ArticleHow I’m using the Apple Watch in the classroom
It was last Friday afternoon when the whispers began. “What on earth is he doing?”, one teacher says. “It’s like I’m watching Get Smart”, said another. While one student was a little more blunt, “Mr...
View Article6 Ideas for Creating Math Centers
Recently, I published 10 New Ideas for Creating Literacy Centers. Suzy Brooks (@SimplySuzy) first introduced me to the concept of using technology to create learning centers through her creative use of...
View Article6 innovative ways to connect with students, courtesy of Walt Disney
This year, what if you could channel your inner Walt Disney for the betterment of student learning? Plussing your Practice Have you ever been to Walt Disney World and spent time on the Jungle Cruise?...
View Article55 Google tips for heading back to school
Just about everyone has officially gone back to school here in the U.S. So what better time to brush up on your education technology skills than right now? Before students are deluged with homework,...
View Article14 ways you can tackle cyberbullying
Bullying seems to have been with us for as long as there have been schools – and what sometimes disappoints in not the seemingly inevitable fact that it happens, but how few schools and parents are...
View ArticleThe quick guide to using Pinterest in education
You’ll know Pinterest, the social network which allows you to share and comment on visual material, which could be photographs, sketches, videos or web pages. It’s a visual scrapbook, an aggregation...
View ArticleThe Power of Positive Feedback and Publishing
In his blog post on Kidblog.org entitled, Top 3 Reasons I Have My Students Blog, Steve Kowalski says, “When it comes to writing, the more feedback a student receives, the more they want to write. Even...
View ArticleHow to Support Open Source with your School IT Budget
Many schools use open source unofficially. They download programs like VLC and then clone them across all their installations. They run servers with Apache to provide numerous services to their...
View ArticleWhat I learned from a Suzuki flute sensei in five days
The tall teenager leans ever so slowly towards his sensei, flute in hand. Irrepressible red curls meet coiffed black hair. The room is packed with flute teachers observing; my son is a guinea pig...
View ArticleHow to Engage, Examine and Extend Learning Through Videos
How many videos can you remember watching in school when you were a student? Though I know we watched dozens and dozens of movies (and FILMSTRIPS!!), I can only remember two. TWO! One of them scared...
View Article4 curriculum areas to integrate code with
Teaching kids to code is the big topic at the moment. But how do we make it an authentic experience for our students? Certainly in the Primary/Elementary schools, there are many strong connections with...
View ArticleWhat to do if your school wikipedia entry gets ‘edited’ by your students
We have all been there. Normal day at work. Focusing on something we feel is important. Then, the call comes in. Something has been, or is in the process of being, hacked. What? You haven’t been there?...
View ArticleHow to Use Praise to Enhance Learning
About one and a half years ago, I fell, broke my foot, and had surgery to repair it. Two weeks later, I fell again and tore my Achilles tendon. Lucky me! I earned even more surgery and a longer...
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