One important skill that students need to learn is to how to view a website and critically evaluate its validity. A site that has been around for awhile is Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division, a website that shows the danger of water. Another site I stumbled across this week is Chemtrail Vaccines, a website that “sells” a vaccine…
Babl Books brings you children’s picture books in all languages. Books in Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and much more! Source: Babl Books This would be a nice resource for multiple language classrooms. The books I looked at were priced at $9.99 for paperback and $14.99 for hardback. The website allows you…
We live in an age of data visualization. Go to any news website and you’ll see graphics charting support for the presidential candidates; open your iPhone and the Health app will generate personalized graphs showing how active you’ve been this week, month or year. Sites publish charts showing how the climate is changing, how schools are…
The components in the model are by no means exhaustive – I acknowledge there are many more literacies, some of which are emergent due to new technologies and services. What I have attempted here is to represent what I consider to be the most important, or most regularly observed literacies and try to place them…
Apple’s Back to School promotion has ironically dropped before some school districts have even finished this year, and it’s… Meh. By purchasing an eligible Mac, iPad or iPhone for college, you get a free pair of Beats headphones. There are two versions of the headphones that you can receive depending on the product you purchase….
You may be wondering, why isn’t the massive influx of technology supporting those who need it the most? Research on edtech points to an explanation of why access is not enough Specifically, Professor Mark Warschaeur (the force to be reckoned with when it comes to researching digital learning) found that “overall, students who are black,…
But giving my students choice and allowing them to being curious learners was hard work. In fact, sometimes I was still really ineffective at guiding the learning that was taking place in my classroom. I tried many different project-based learning frameworks, embraced the inquiry cycle, and tweaked my own idea of how to structure this…
This book reaffirms what I have speculated for a while; the majority of schools and districts gauge the effectiveness of professional development with nothing more than teacher surveys. As Guskey informs the reader, “Sadly, the bulk of professional development today is evaluated only at Level 1 [participant reaction], if at all. Of the rest, the…
Imagine you are 3 or 4 feet tall, a meter — give or take 10 cm — and you climb off this huge yellow bus (the vehicle that teaches you that seat belts are not important), or you climb out of mom or dad’s car, and — you are at your school. Imagine you are 16 or 17, frustrated, tired, angry…