A Teacher’s Thoughts

Wikis it Seems It seems this falls’ theme was the wiki. Starting with our team’s Amistad project, students and teachers alike began to discover how to leverage the features of a wiki to enhance, inspire, and document learning. While most students and teachers had used a wiki to retrieve information, only a couple of students [...]

Today was the final challenge in our Remotely Operated Vehicle Challenge. After about a week of planning and practice the groups from our two classes had their final challenge; navigate to a given location, put a cap on a jar. The simplified assignment from my previous post is: Working with another 8th grade science class [...]

I was asked the other day what a technology integrated classroom may look like. Certainly there are many answers to that such as Clarence Fisher’s classroom in Snow Lake. But what might you see in a classroom walk-through? To see or experience all of what makes a technology integrated classroom would require discussion with the [...]

How does a computer lab fit into a technology integrated curriculum? That is the question my team has been asking. In the end I think the answer is that a lab, with signups, schedules, and removal from the main classroom cannot support a technology integrated curriculum. We are not a one-to-one laptop middle school so [...]

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 [...]