‘Elementary’ 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Shadow Puppets and ELL Students
How can shadow puppets be used to teach ELL kindergarten students about the components of a story? As the majority of the students in our elementary [...]
Proper typing out, thumb typing in
Just as I'm having conversations again around why we should or shouldn't teach typing in our schools technology has once again moved us into another [...]
You mean the teacher still matters?
Four great articles have come to light lately that point to research being done and what many of us in the Ed Tech community have been saying for a [...]
Games – What exactly are kids learning?
Games and the value of game-based learning has been a hot topic for me lately, so I was thrilled to come across Tom Chatfield's article, Why playing [...]
