‘Grade Level’ 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 [...]
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 [...]
Software for 2010-2011
It's that time of year again as last week we started working on our student computer image for the 10-11 school year here at ISB. Trying to find the [...]
Confusing Parents
I'm sure you've heard by now the Principal in NJ that is asking parents to ban all Social-Networking sites from students. You can find his full [...]
Information Broker for Digital Textbooks
As teachers, we are constantly on the look out for new books, electronic texts, media resources, Web sites, etc. that we piece together to build upon [...]
