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brad thies wrote a new post, The AUP, on the site The Leap 1 week, 1 day ago
My wife Jo and I teamed up to do a little work on our school’s (Seoul Foreign School) Responsible Use Agreement. This is a timely topic, as our school just went 1:1 this year, and there are some kinks […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, Positive Time Suck, on the site The Leap 1 week, 2 days ago
One day, as I was perusing a few blogs, I came across one by Kim Cofino. The entry I was looking at, entitled “Status Update: 3 Key Learnings From Our 1:1 Implementation” was of particular interest to me […]
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brad thies commented on the post, Are you suffering from FOMO?, on the site Education Journey 1 week, 5 days ago
I led a retreat for high-school students a couple of years ago. There was one stipulation: students had to agree to put their cell phones in a basket and would be allowed to use for one hour each morning(hey […]
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brad thies commented on the post, Mind Your Digital Manners!, on the site Under Construction 2 weeks, 1 day ago
My wife and I have made many similar observations of people here in Seoul. Often crowded subway cars are silent because everyone is plugged into some sort of device. It makes me think twice about the amount of […]
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brad thies commented on the post, The Higher Ground, on the site Teacher Thompson 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Ben,
I live on that same slippery slope. I remember a few years back, at a cabin party, a friend brought along some program that allowed party goers to hook their ipods up to his computer and it would download […] -
brad thies wrote a new post, Social Practice, on the site The Leap 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Sometimes I feel like, as a teacher at an international school, I am so insulated from the “real world.” Case in point: A couple of months ago my wife came home and was so frustrated with the disruptive […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, Digital Jaywalking, on the site The Leap 3 weeks, 6 days ago
If I were teaching in my former public school position, and that school was located here in Seoul, and not Minneapolis, I would have absolutely no idea how to teach the idea of copyright to students. […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, Bug Sex, on the site The Leap 4 weeks, 1 day ago
You know what that’s a picture of? That’s a Giant African Millipede. About ten years ago I was involved in a program that brought exotic species of bugs to classrooms for students to observe. There were […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, Asbestos:Landfill :: Content:Web, on the site The Leap 1 month, 2 weeks ago
About twenty years ago my wife and I decided to update our old octopus-armed, asbestos laden furnace with a newer, more efficient model. Little did we realize the true cost of such an undertaking. You see, […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, Course 1 Final Project, on the site The Leap 2 months ago
At my school, Seoul Foreign School, we just adopted a new social studies curriculum in the elementary school called Storypath. My students really enjoyed our first unit on building a toy company, but our second […]
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brad thies commented on the post, Trans-Warp Beaming, on the site The Leap 2 months, 1 week ago
Since your book is the one that counts, prepare for lots of Star Trek!
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brad thies commented on the post, Embracing Collaborative Projects, on the site Terry's Tales of Learning 2 months, 1 week ago
Cheryl,
I just deleted my first attempt at a comment to you by not opening a new tab. Yep, that’s the kind of technology expert I am. I was intrigued by your Classroom Bridges project, not so much for its […] -
brad thies wrote a new post, Trans-Warp Beaming, on the site The Leap 2 months, 1 week ago
There is absolutely no way to accurately answer the question “How is technology changing the learning landscape and global education?” because not only is it changing everything, it’s changing everything […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, New Wine in Old Wineskins, on the site The Leap 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m originally from Minnesota, land of Lake Wobegon and Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” When I was a kid, my parents would put “Mystery Theater” on whenever we happened to be in the car on […]
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brad thies commented on the post, I need more time!, on the site Fighting Digital Illiteracy 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I think you’ve hit on what I struggle with as well. What’s the recipe for a successful transition into a 21st century classroom? What am I doing that is valuable, redundant, irrelevant, note-worthy, etc. and […]
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brad thies commented on the post, Anyone out there like me?, on the site Under Construction 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Apparently you haven’t seen my blog. I’d like to be considered for the rookie club too. Incidentally, I’m the tech wizard in this household, and my wife is in the cohort as well. What does that tell you? Talk […]
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brad thies wrote a new post, 21st Century Doubts, on the site The Leap 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Remember the “Magic Eye” posters that were so popular about a while ago. Somehow a group of computer geniuses figured out how to embed three-dimensional images in two-dimensional arrays of various shapes and […] -
brad thies wrote a new post, A Split Decision, on the site The Leap 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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brad thies commented on the post, 21st Century Doubts, on the site The Leap 3 months ago
It can’t be all bling and no substance. I think not all content/information has the half-life and therefore the insignificance that some speak about. I can’t imagine a day will come when knowing your […]
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brad thies commented on the post, Making Sense, on the site Mind the Gap 3 months ago
OK,
I think what the article on connectivism was missing was the examples that your video presents. I got weighed down by the jargon in the article this video made sense of it for me.
Even more importantly, […] - Load More
