A Teacher’s Thoughts

I have been thinking about this lately as I reflect on my own learning. Below is advice given to me by my graduate advisor (I studied Zoology).

Try not to take classes.
Pick an area you love.
Figure out what is important.
Read everything on that topic.
Build a network of people who are working on the same or […]

I should have done this the first day of school. What a great way to get the kids up and talking to each other. I began the paper blogging lesson plan yesterday. The students are very excited about where this is heading and we have had some good discussions about online safety, […]

At first I thought that this was only because I was new to the edubloggerworld but now I am thinking that there is likely some solid math to the issue. In a network, how do you know which way leads elsewhere?
As I click through my feed reader, looking at others’ sites and their connections […]

I’ve been filtered and by my own district. I received this email from a teacher at our new high school
I thought you’d enjoy the fact that your blog is blocked (a teachers thoughts) because it contains banned words.

This followed a discussion about “Linkin’ (B)Logs: A New Literacy of Hyperlinks” by Tiffany J Hunt and […]

I have read a lot about fear lately. Fear of new technologies, fear of change. The latter is the I guess the biggest fear in a general sense. Perhaps many teachers are held back from adopting new technologies, held back by fears. The same is surely happening right up the educational […]