Ah, Arvind Grover asks in his most recent blog posts Should We Teach Software Skills, How to we blend learning skills with higher order thinking? Do we teach kids PowerPoint or do we teach them how to make fantastic presentations using digital tools? If you say obviously the latter, can you do that without a [...]
Entries from February 11, 2007
Which comes first, acquisition of technology skills or using technology skills for deeper inquiry?
February 11, 2007 · No Comments · teaching and learning
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Parting Waters – A Digital Storytelling Project for the Rest of the 11th Grade
February 8, 2007 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning
At our school, a junior must take either US History or AP US History during the junior year. Because of the demands of the AP curriculum and the emphasis on writing, students in this class often do not get a chance to utilize alternative ways to develop their narrative voice. Because of the success of [...]
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Reflections – The Machine is Us/ing Us
February 8, 2007 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning
[my note - This posting is being created as a draft of an email that I will be sending to my faculty and staff, those not currently involved using web 2.0 tools.] Yesterday, during an all-school faculty meeting, Kevin Randolph, our History Department chair, presented one of the videos that students created for a project [...]
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Frustrations – A Personal Learning Experience Finally Gone Right
February 5, 2007 · 2 Comments · Computer Science, teaching and learning
This semester, I am teaching a course in Computer Programming. This course is an introduction to Java which serves as a prerequisite to the AP Computer Science class that I also teach. Earlier this year, my old 40 Gb hard drive it the dust right around the time that my 80 Gb upgraded drive arrived. [...]
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A Long and Rewarding Saturday
February 3, 2007 · No Comments · teaching and learning
Teaching and Learning, as we are well aware, does not always take place within the classroom or during school hours. Sometimes it occurs in areas which are outside of your primary responsibilities. And this is what I experienced today, many times over. Being at an independent school, we are asked to take part in many [...]
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