A Teacher’s Thoughts

Fast-paced and straight to the point, Chris Lehmann’s five minutes on school 2.0. His energy and passion brings the message home.

When my wife and I first looked into a Waldorf school for our son I came home thinking, “ah, no.” Everything seemed fine really. The staff were very caring, the facility adequate, the other children, some of whom we knew were happy and prospering. So what was the turn off? Well, […]

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’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 […]