Quote of the day - Gandhi
Sunday, July 20th, 2008You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
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You must be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Quote of the day - Eric Hoffer
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.“ – Eric Hoffer
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008OK, I'm finally blogging about this article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, by Marc Prensky. Get it here from the author. It's been around since 2001, and has been talked about and referred to at almost every Educational Technology conference I've been to since that time. The terms "digital natives" and "digital ...
Pi Day fun!
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007This last week was "Pi Week" at my school. We made a big deal of this, for several reasons, one of which was that we teach geometry, including the circumference and area of a circle, which is where the marvelous number pi shows up! On Wednesday, Pi day, we had an Albert ...
Distance Learning in 6th grade!-Part 2
Thursday, February 8th, 2007I blogged a while ago about an exciting opportunity that presented itself for me to use blogging and wikis with one of my students that was going to be gone to India for a few weeks. The dream was dependent on my student having internet access when she was in ...
Blogging helps keep a record of our own learning…
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007Steve Dembo recently blogged about "Blogging for your own future reference." It struck me as such a relevant point that I left the following comment: Great point! I was just about to reflect on this general point myself. I see my own blog as sort of a resource for those teachers that ...
Family Internet Night
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007This is an example of how a Family Internet Night can work. It's from Mark Ahlness, in Seattle, Washington. I thought I'd share it here.
Hope for our students
Thursday, May 11th, 2006I met a teacher up here at Scicon that comes from a low socio-economic background. She told me some tremendous things about her life that really inspired me and reminded me of why I’m in this job (or at least why I should be here). She attributes all of her academic/professional ...
Be a Life-Long Learner!
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005[This is a "transplanted" post from my ClassBlogmeister blog. I've changed the timestamp so it appears to be written the same day as the original. Blogging with my students last school year helped me to see that one key aspect of a blog is a clear purpose and sense of ...
