Dabbling.
Doing old things in old ways.
Doing old things in new ways.
Doing new things in new ways.

When i initially came across these four bullet points above, i didn’t give them much thought until i […]

after reading David Warlick’s article, What Difference Might One “S” Make? (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=1954), i started to agree more with the idea of learning both computer applications and computer […]

” … education’s value-add is and will be in the coaching and troubleshooting when students are applying their learning, and in challenging students to apply their thinking to hands-on learning by doing and […]

it seems that futurists in education and other fields often try to come up with an entirely new way of how things will be in, say, 10 or 50 years from now.  it doesn’t seem necessary to try to predict what the […]

i like the article on the 23 points because it could a great starting point for a discussion on how to handle a classroom with every student having a notebook or tablet in front of them. we could start the convo […]

i really like the idea of using video with sound to allow students to become more aware of their presentation, speaking, and grammar skills.  i noticed it when i did the voicethread with Korn who didn’t realize […]

At the most fundamental level, all this discussion and readings about the lack of benefits of more “traditional” ways of schooling that involved reading and then writing about the text, has made me question the very essence of my schooling and how I now teach my students.  The article in New Horizons for Learning, entitled [...]

This blog is quite special to me because it’s about a student of mine who had a horrible accident in a taxi last year as he and a friend were returning from a party late in early morning hours.  The two boys were 11th graders at the time of the accident: Bank survived with major injuries [...]

I have become a big fan of all these infographics that are popping up everywhere.  I love how they quickly give me the basic information to give me a sense of what is trying to be conveyed.  The succinctness of them makes for a great starting point for, say, a particular lesson that I could look into deeper [...]

I’m thinking of Michael Shaw’s quote in terms of how we need to understand and be critical of images and visuals including pictures and videos that we see everyday.  The quote is very relevant today because much of what we will receive visually will hopefully transfer over to our students by providing them with that critical, [...]