A Teacher’s Thoughts

So, yesterday, I posted, Then and Now: Changes in a Learning Activity.  The post is about how I have modified a single learning activity over time, integrating more technology.  And then I updated my Google Earth.  This is something I should do more often, but I just don’t seem to get around to it.  Today [...]

Following yesterday’s inaugural address, the New York Times has created a nice time line of Word clouds for all the inaugural addresses since 1789. See it here
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html?hp

With a lot of excitement I am pleased to announce that my eighth grade science classes and another seventh grade science class will be going one-to-one with laptops. Following a bit of hard work we have received grant funding necessary to make this happen. In addition we will be putting laptops and hand-held data [...]

What a great day. My students are so very excited to join the Yes I Can Science International Space Station 2007 project. The kids worked so hard today to get logged in, begin updating their profiles and reading previous blog posts. I have emphasized to them that we are coming into this [...]

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 [...]