‘21st Century Themes’ Archives
Edtech Co-op: New Community for Educators
Mark Hofer and I started a new community to focus on curriculum-based technology integration and new teacher preparation practices. The community [...]
AP Making the Shift
The College Board Advanced Placement program is making the shift away from knowledge-based to more concept and problem solving learning. The New York [...]
Learning in the Digital Age: Social Networking
In a previous post, I wrote about a conference that included three presenters sharing their research on multitasking, social networking and the [...]
Learning in the Digital Age: Multitasking, Social Networking and the Changing Brain
I recently attended a conference in Washington DC on the topic of “Learning in the Digital Age: Multitasking, Social Networking and the Changing [...]
In Defense of Open, Online Communication in Education
It all started on parent night. As I was telling parents about the blog I write for Economics students, a father of an 11th grade AP student raised [...]
iPad Apps from Learning2.010 Unconference
'Give one to get one' - that was the tagline for the iPad Apps Unconference at Learning 2.010 in Shanghai last week. Here are some of the Apps [...]
Teaching Resources for Texting and Social Networking
Working at a new school in a new country offers many learning opportunities. At Alexandria Country Day School, I am not only learning about the [...]
Picnik.com launches back to school ideas
A friend of mine who now works for Picnik (or should I say Google seeing that Picnik was recently purchased by them), the online photo editing [...]
Using Search Stories to Teach Search Skills
Last year one of the best ads released during the SuperBowl was this simple ad by Google Shortly after the release of this video Google asked [...]
Are we teaching Networked Literacy
The two best sessions for me at Edubloggercon today at ISTE2010 ended up talking about Networks and teaching how to use networks with students. For [...]
