Mark Hofer and I started a new community to focus on curriculum-based technology integration and new teacher preparation practices. The community centers around the Edtech Co-op blog where we and other community members will share ideas on the two themes. The Co-op is also involved with Curriki as a group that members can assign their [...]
The College Board Advanced Placement program is making the shift away from knowledge-based to more concept and problem solving learning. The New York Times shares this information and reactions from AP teachers who are reviewing the new courses. It seems like the voices from the blogosphere are being heard.
In a previous post, I wrote about a conference that included three presenters sharing their research on multitasking, social networking and the brain. This post covers the presentation by Patricia Greenfield of UCLA and the Children’s Digital Media Center. Her research focuses on social networking. Dr. Greenfield clearly demonstrated that our youth are experiencing a very [...]
It is less than 24 hours before I take off for Seattle and 2 1/2 weeks of relaxation. Between work and consulting/conferences I have not had two weekends off in a row since I landed back here in Thailand in August, and I’ve worked through every other holiday we’ve had. So I’m looking forward to
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It’s that time of year again in the international education world of contracts, decisions, and thinking about your future. Kim Cofino has a great post about finding the right fit…the right school. Whether you are an international educator or not it’s worth a read. International Teachers are different…we’re weird….we don’t like stability, we like change
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The Edublog Awards Nominees are out and much to my surprise one of our students from here in Bangkok is on the list. Why is this surprising? Because I didn’t nominate her and other than myself and Chrissy I’m not sure anyone else at our school knows the Edublog Awards even exist. Which can only
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Last Tuesday I was given 10 minutes at the staff meeting to update the high school staff on tech happenings here at ISB. This would be the most time I’ve spend in front of the entire high school staff this year and I wanted to try and use the time to demonstrate technology and inform
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Just a quick announcement that I will be running a Webinar as part of the Intel Education Community on December 1, 2010 5:00pm PDT/ 8:00pm EDT (click on the link to register.) Here’s the discription: Using Cell Phones and Scan Codes in the Classroom You’ve probably started seeing these scan codes popping up around your neighborhood,
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I’ve been reflecting a lot on Dan Pink’s new book Drive and thinking about how this applies to education and the work we ask students to do. My wife recently took 10 Middle School students on an Operation Smile trip into the mountains of Thailand near the Burma boarder. The Middle Schoolers spent their time playing
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I recently attended a conference in Washington DC on the topic of “Learning in the Digital Age: Multitasking, Social Networking and the Changing Brain”. The speakers were David Meyer of the University of Michigan, Patricia Greenfield of UCLA and the Childrens Digital Media Center” and David Rose of Harvard and CAST. Their presentations very much [...]
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