All Blog Posts Tagged 'technology' (8)

It is a crazy world when you really stop and think about how 8 year old children can create their own movies within a thirty minute class.  Even crazier when you realize they learn the iPad app AND create their movie in that thirty minutes!  I did this in my third grade classroom this week!  I wanted to teach my children how to do book trailers on their tablets, and I wanted to get them involved in designing their own creative process on their…

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I wanted to let everyone know I keep a list of hundreds (and hundreds) of websites I use in my tech classroom. They're organized by grade and topic, so you can find what you need. Sometimes, I let the kids browse for a website I've forgotten about. The Talking Dog is quite popular.

Enjoy! Let me know if you have any favorites I can add.

Though this position is listed with NAIS, ISACS, ISSL and Carney Sandoe, my staff felt strongly that I should post the job description as listed below.  I guess they are hoping Mary Poppins will show up with this description taped together!  :-)

 

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1) Student work reflection across physics levels.

My partner teacher in physics was absent due to illness, so I compared the mid-year exams I gave to the mid-year exams he gave in honors physics and AP physics.  There was a great deal of similarity in the structure, content and challenge of our tests with appropriately increased difficulty of questions in the Honors and AP tests.  Though we rarely have an opportunity to discuss our courses, the tests demonstrate that we teach very…

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Riding my bicycle down the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail, I passed a small family group. Mom was on her cell and Dad engrossed with his blackberry. Just another example of societies disconnectedness to the natural world, I thought. Reading Louv’s Last Child in the Woods (http://richardlouv.com/) has had a deep impact on me and I can not resolve this. What was once taken for granted, days of childhood play and exploration over local hill and dale, has been replaced by endless hours in front of… Continue

Hi, I'm a senior in high school in the United States and I am doing a project about technology use in other countries. I am trying learn about the types of technology that have had the greatest impact on our world as a whole, over the last 10 years, instead of just seeing how technology plays a role in the United States.

I am hoping that I will get responses from people all across the world.



If you could please take this survey survey I would be very grateful.…



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We’re suffering from too many good ideas.

- An anonymous school head, as quoted by Robert Evans



It is not realistic to ask teachers to do all that they do and add yet another new thing without thinking differently about the old things.

- Alan Bain



Mastery of new concepts, materials, and methods, though typically the unique focus of staff development efforts, is actually the last stage of a complex cognitive and affective process.

- Robert… Continue

This past weekend I spent time with people who are from the Greatest Generation and I listened to them complain that nothing is made in the Great United States of America anymore. They went on to say that maybe our country is not so great anymore. This made me reflect on a few things.



* First, is the number of products made in the USA a benchmark for defining great?



* Second, if it is not products what defines great?



These are two very tough questions and I… Continue