Learning and Science in the 21st Century
Change is difficult. Change agents will tell you that to move forward a leader must create a sense of urgency. This urgency requires the exclusion of competition.
NCLB, RTI, Common Core Standards, Race to the Top… Urgent
When all of our conversation revolves around implementing these ideas, what becomes excluded? What do we no longer talk about?
Read: A Sense of Urgency
There is a particular unit of study I have taught for the past seven or so years in my middle school science classes. The science content is in the area of climate study. In particular my class is trying to understand how the Sun-Earth system work together to cause variability in our Climate. Ultimately this [...]
Ari Shwartz talks with NPR On the Media about technology and the new administration. It seems the White House and government in general have some battles in common with educators when it comes to implementing modern technologies in the workplace as we try to catch up to the rest of the pubic world.
“Everyone in government [...]
I hope I am not too late to subscribe here, but I just put the first ever White House Blog into my feed reader. I suppose I should add the House Hub and Senate Hub over at Youtube to the mix, but none of my legislators have jumped on board yet. Well, I [...]
Changing what you do takes constant attention and detailed planning. Today, students took the lead with applying what they have learned about the tech tools we have used so far.
I wanted students, working in pairs, to post some pre-constructed comments on our class site. I knew they would not have time to [...]
