I had heard from my safe and comfortable position in New Zealand about the “No child left behind” program in the states. I had heard too, from colleagues that this was a major problem and a concern. But isolated from direct exposure, this was of passing interest.
The reality of NCLB in schools is completely different [...]
Its day 3…. The middle of the third innings and they are hitting home runs off a tough pitcher…
This is fun. The project is focusing on getting the teachers to have the students construct their learning. It is project based learning with a twist that is innovative and exciting – the problem that form the [...]
Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district.
The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on the Future Edge. Both of these were brilliant. The content was exciting and dynamic. The afternoon was mine.
My focus was [...]
Well I have arrived in Arkansas. And its flat, I am missing hills. Its a pretty state farm lands indespersed with patchs of woodlands.
The process of getting here has been quite long, but I had yesterday (saturday) to recuperate in Memphis. We went out last night to BB Kings house of Blues and had 4 [...]
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912419,00.html
This article in time magazine is looking at the “death of cursive handwriting”. Its an interesting article not because it sits an bemoans the fact that cursive handwriting is now an obsolete skill, rather its looks with some realism that things are changing.
I suspect that for most people reading a blog this is an obvious [...]
Research has indicated that timely and effective feedback is second only to teaching of higher order thinking skills in its benefit to learning.
Today we had a presentation looking at Formative assessment (more on this) but one of the aspects of this presentation that I liked was a model for feedback. The model is ranked from [...]
The more I use Voicethread the more I like it.
I like the simple GUI, the fact that I can produce media that contains, images, documents, video, voice and text. This is a rich tool for teaching and learning and one well worth using. I love that students can comment and reflect.
Starter Sheet – voicethread
The [...]
Ian sent me an interesting article from the Edge – http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/tapscott09/tapscott09_index.html
The article is “The impending demise of University“. The article is written by Don Tapscott
Here is a quote from the article
“The old-style lecture, [...]
Sometimes I wonder…
Robin Williams’ played Professor John Keating in the Dead Poets Society. Keating was a rebel, he did not conform or agree with the then norm’s of teaching.
“Now I want you to rip out that page. Go on, rip out the entire page. You heard me, rip it out. Rip it out! Thank you [...]
This week has been exciting and fun. ISNZ – independent schools of New Zealand held the annual conference for Heads, Bursars and boards in Wellington. This year had a different twist to the opening and closing keynote addresses.
The opening keynote was Martin Westwell of Flinders University. He was presenting to the conference on Nueroscience, education [...]
