by Brian | Mar 31, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Education, Project Based, Student Access
My class got started this week on a 7 week project we will participate in with almost 500 other students from 9 schools in my district from 4th to 8th grade. We call the project Marsopolis. The students will work together to design the systems needed to survive on...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Education, Field Trips, Literacy, Student Access, Technology
The New York Times reported today that schools have been cutting back on science, social studies, art, PE, and other subjects to push reading and math. Like where have these people been? This is just coming to light? They don’t mention technology and field trips...
by Brian | Mar 22, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Education, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
The “New Story†hasn’t caught on because it is not a new story – it’s not even a tech story or a web 2.0 story. The New Story doesn’t catch on because it is not a story you can hear or read about and really understand. To understand it you have to work...
by Brian | Mar 13, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Education, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
The edublogosphere has been pleading for an answer to how long it will take to make significant change in how schools do school. From the time I started teaching 25 years ago there has been talk about schools needing to change – so this isn’t exactly new ground....
by Brian | Mar 12, 2006 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Email, Field Trips, Literacy, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
“Messy†learning is: Maybe not being sure where to start or how to start. Trying and failing and trying again. Frustration, focus, idea, arguing, agreeing, experimenting, glue, paint, string, cardboard, scissors, what else could we use? not quite, better, worse,...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2006 | Blogging, Education, Student Access, Technology
Bud the Teacher continued a conversation a few days ago about how it is taking “too much time†for tools like blogs to be embraced and utilized by educators. A seemingly unrelated favorite activity I re-visted today with my sixth graders motivated me to write this...
