A Teacher’s Thoughts

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 […]

A lot of talk in the halls about literacy today. Good conversations, face to face, thoughtful, you know with long reflective pauses. A conversation here, another there. At the same time we are moving forward with technology. People want to blog. At each turn I am seeing a way for […]

As the year begins it is exciting to see others at my school willing to jump in and explore web 2.0 tools. Currently two teachers have started blogs which they will or are using for their students and a third wants to move forward with a wiki. As our school goes through physical […]

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 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 […]