I was having trouble getting the local clickers we purchased in Taiwan working with resources purchased from the text publisher.  We were encouraged to buy locally because the Taiwan military makes it very difficult to import certain electronics like clickers.  Anyway, because of all this mix up, I came across Pool Everywhere on the internet.  [...]

As a science teacher I find it easy, almost natural to use the computer in the classroom.  Virtually everyday students are using their computers in the classroom.  My classroom has become almost paperless since the school went one-to-one with computers.  Tests are one online Blackboard. Homework is done online with WebAssign.  Many labs are done…[Read more]

With computers steadily dropping in price I can see a major change in education on the horizon, especially public education.  Over the next 5 to 10 years more and more schools will be going one-to-one.  As the cost of laptops, tablets, and handhelds drop it becomes that much more affordable and enticing for school divisions to [...]

Our school just had a PD day with Dr. Michelle Borba presenting a workshop on building moral intelligence.  There were a few things that really caught my attention.  One was that research says that moral intelligence can be taught. Researchers can tell within seconds which child is susceptible to being bullied and which kids are more likely to [...]

There are many variables and many people responsible to ensure that the technology standards are met in a school.  In the top international schools it starts at the hiring process.  Administrators need to hire qualified people who are not only experienced competent teachers in their subject matter, but also teachers who have the tech skills…[Read more]

I think the question depends on the grade level.  For elementary, there should be a separate class like PE, Music, or Library, where students go for a 30 minute class in a computer type room and a specialist works with them.  I say this from a point of view of a parent of a kindergartener. [...]

For the class project, I wanted to create a piece of media myself.  After putting in about 5 hours of work, I felt I had a good start.  I knew what I wanted the finished product to look like and I knew how to get it done.  I just needed another 10 hours or so [...]

I have heard Michael Thompson speak two times. The first time was a several years ago at a teacher’s conference in Caracas, Venezuela.  His presentation had a real impression on me then, so I had big expectations from him this time around.  I attended his presentation on the Top Twelve Suggestions for Teaching Boys. Since that first time [...]

Max Planck has always fascinated me.  Planck is considered the father of Quantum Theory and received a Nobel Prize for his work in this area in 1918.  Einstein piggybacked on some of Planck’s ideas when he published his famous 1905 paper, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies .  Einstein maybe most famous for relativity and E=MC 2, but it [...]

You know those presents you buy someone that you really want for yourself?  Come on we all have at least been tempted to buy our spouses something we really want for ourselves.  This past Christmas I heard of an almost unbelievable one.  A guy from my home town back in Saskatchewan bought his Mexican wife an ice fishing [...]

For the last few months I have been hearing about smart phones and all the wonderful things they can do.  Before this I wasn’t interested in the $800 phones.  I can hardly write that….$800 phone!  Who would ever want to spend that much money on a phone?  It seems so preposterous.  However, I am been pulled [...]

Since coming to TAS I have seen little if any bullying. I know that is what everyone says when in fact stuff is happening all around them.  Danah Boyd indicates this exact thing in the article “Bullying” Has Little Resonance with Teenagers. In my past schools I did see bullying so when I compare to those schools, TAS [...]