Learning and Science in the 21st Century
There seems to be an undercurrent buzz of “So what” coursing around the edublogosphere lately. Perhaps it is the continued tiresome rush of new tools flooding the web and our desire to play with them. There is nothing wrong with playing with these new tools. Are we not modeling curiosity, exploration and learning in doing [...]
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I’ve been giving Vicki Davis’ idea of a students as pro learners some thought lately. In a previous post I asked what can I do to allow students to become “pro learners” of science? This is a great question and one that can be applied across disciplines. I think it is so great because it [...]
Hats off to Dave Boardman for a great presentation on blogs, Crank up the Volume: Giving Students a Voice with Weblogs, at the Learning in a 2.0 World sponsored by ACTEM. Only a real pro could pull off a blog presentation without internet access! Dave combined excellent examples of blogging by his students at Messalonskee [...]
Digesting a conference has always been a process that involves time for me. This may take a little longer. I attended Wikis Across the Curriculum presented by the cool cat teacher over in Augusta, Maine. We created a wiki as part of the conference while the whole event was streamed live on ustream. Here are [...]
I spent a little time today checking out the Jason Project and their new mission, Monster Storms. My wife, who teaches 5th grade has used the Jason Project several times in the past but is coming back to it after three years and wanted some help visualizing how Jason and web 2.0 tools might fit [...]
