My ISTE 2010 Conference Keynote Topic Suggestion: Teacher(s) In The Trenches
Teacher(s) In The Trenches What is missing from too many education conferences are examples of teachers who effectively accomplish exactly what the conference is promoting. Teachers and administrators just might connect with a teacher or teachers sharing effective...
Loma Prieta Earthquake 20th Anniversary
20 years ago today I was living with my wife of all of 2 months in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had just gotten home from school and settled on the couch to watch the Giants / A's World Series when the place started shaking and the power went out. I glanced out the...
Re-Post – So How Could I Still Teach My Students If School Was Cancelled?
NOTE: This is a post from this last spring that seems timely now with schools being closed due to the swine flu. Note that because I have a new group of students, and we have not been able to access our laptops yet (and 19 of them have been rendered moot) I could not...
OK!
Me to one of my 4th grade students: "Hey, you've been out for 3 days, did you have the flu?" Student: "No, that's what we thought at first, but I just had a fever, was throwing up, achy, and had a sore throat." Me:...
Process The Learning
I'm sure that you have heard that to integrate technology into your classroom and then continue to do what you have always done, just with technology, is a mistake. It is what has time and again led to failure in 1:1 programs and other tech integration programs. You...
Language Intense
One of the benefits of being part of a 1:1 program the last 3 years has been how language intense the experience has been. This is valuable no matter who your students are, but for my second language elementary school students, it has been even more than I could have...
Update On Status Of Our 1:1 Laptop Program
Well we just finished the second week of school. I got a brand new set of 4th graders and they are raring to go. My 50 year old school got a complete overhaul this summer. The walls of each classroom that were concrete block are now covered in a material that allows...
And We Are Wasting Time Arguing About The President Telling School Kids To Work Hard!?
And then you see this: Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: September 5, 2009 The New York Times Sheesh!!! Learning is messy!!! Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags: homelesness, public schools
If Media Reported About Presidential Speeches Historically The Way They Do Now
9/7/09 UPDATE: Here is a link to the Speech. In light of the response to President Obama's upcoming speech to schoolchildren about doing well in school. Schools here have been getting very angry calls from parents demanding that the speech not be shown, using words...
Class Survey – My New 4th Grade Class
I decided to do this quick assessment piece with my students this year to get a sense of what resources they have, (I asked the blogging question because we will be blogging this year again and wondered if anyone knew about them), and their general knowledge of...