A quick post to say that the Learning & the Brain conference (Web-Connected Minds) last weekend in Arlington VA was terrific. A whole lot to think about. And in order for me to process all the information, I’m going to start working through my notes and get some stuff out here over the next week. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Learning & the Brain – Brain Dump
Posted in books, education, tagged #LB32, books, education, Google Docs, Learning & the Brain, summer reading, Twitter on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Assessing the Assessment
Posted in education, tagged assessments, education, HowToUse65, NCCS, pedagogy, PG&E, tests on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cross-posted at How to Use 65 blog. Last Wednesday’s divisional discussion of PG&E goals was useful to me in a number of ways. I appreciated the chance to bounce ideas off of the small group of teachers that gathered to discuss assessment and classroom practice. It was encouraging to hear how other teachers deal with [...]
correllation and causation – family income and SAT scores
Posted in education, tagged dan pink, education, SAT on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This could make you mad, cause you to shrug, or perhaps induce some other emotion somewhere in between. You might say, “well, sure, of course it does.” Hopefully it makes you think. Dan Pink wrote a post yesterday on the correlation of parental income level and child SAT scores. His post triggered a wave of [...]
Final Project for WebTools
Posted in education, Education / Science, WebTools, tagged current events, education, paper.li, webtools on July 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Overview: In the coming year our school is changing the structure of its master schedule; we are moving to a schedule that will include different length periods spread across a seven-day rotation. Every cycle will contain one 65 minute period (20 minutes longer than what we have now). For my final project, I’m planning to rework the way I [...]
Reflection on Online Discussion
Posted in education, WebTools, tagged blogging, D2L, education, online discussion, PLN on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pretty happy with the variety of discussion formats that we’ve used for this class: (“conversations” through the comment sections of our blogs; the teachingscience2.0 wiki, and D2L), and I’m happy that we finished out the course with the threaded conversations on D2L. They were a nice change of pace/format, and actually seemed like they [...]
More on Blogs in the Classroom
Posted in WebTools, tagged blogging, education, Larry Ferlazzo on July 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I tweeted this a few days ago, but thought I’d repost here since it relates to so many of our final WebTools projects and could be pretty useful. This a great article with a wealth of information on blogging (in and out of the classroom). “Wealth of information” doesn’t even do it justice (I think I [...]
Blogs and Wikis – a reflection
Posted in education, WebTools, tagged blogs, education, Web Tools, wikis on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In reading Week 5′s assignments and looking ahead to our final projects (while considering this post on using blogs and wikis in the classroom), I was struck by the following line (which I put in bold below): “Looking Forward Week 6 will focus on adding detail to your final project idea and exploring additional tools. You may [...]
Expanding your PLN
Posted in education, science, WebTools, tagged Classroom 2.0, collaboration, education, NABT, networking, PLN, The Synapse, Twitter, Web Tools on June 24, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Cross-posted at HowToUse65. So, with the interest of collaborating and sharing ideas with other educators, many teachers have begun to “build” their own Personal Learning Network (PLN). “Grow” a PLN might be a better way to put it, since a PLN expands organically (in some ways), and it requires tending, occasional pruning, and general upkeep [...]
