by Brian | Sep 9, 2006 | Change, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
We of the edbloggosphere have bemoaned the snail’s pace progress in educational change. One of the issues I believe is that kids are perceived by society as only having the potential to contribute to society sometime in the future. If kids were appreciated for what...
by Brian | Sep 8, 2006 | Change, Education, Project Based, Student Access
After experiences and conversations of late I felt this needed to be restated: The key with technology use in education is that IT NOT be about teaching technology. That is one of the big hurdles people have to get over. I believe that when you feel inadequate about...
by Brian | Sep 5, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Change, Digital Video, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
Oh-oh! The downside of doing an interview is living up to it! (Down to it?) I was contacted by Harris Salat over at Visual Thesaurus a few months back. He interviewed me over the phone and here’s the finished product.
by Brian | Sep 3, 2006 | Blogging, Change, Education, Literacy, Student Access, Technology
Wes Fryer has posted a podcast of a presentation – “Encouraging Reading†by Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus University of Southern California, at Encyclo-Media 2006, Oklahoma City, OK_01 September 2006 (Thanks Wes!). It is a great presentation and I highly...
by Brian | Aug 30, 2006 | Brian Crosby, Change, Education, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
What Happened To The Time? I haven’t managed to post in a couple of weeks – getting ready for the school year, planning and presenting about the Activboards we received and the digital cameras we bought for each classroom in our school are reasons, but actually...
by Brian | Aug 14, 2006 | Change, Technology
I saw this drawing on the back of September’s Reader’s Digest (“MY SPACE” by C.F. Payne) and it reminded me of the scene David Warlick and so many other edubloggers describe – and I thought the title was apt.