Browsed by
Category: Education

Thinking about Professional Development

Thinking about Professional Development

Comments 4 comments

Summer is a time for relaxation and renewal for educators.  It is the season where we recharge the batteries, reflect on our success and failure and rethink what we will do next year.  During this “down time” many educators participated in curriculum writing and professional development.  Tim Holt recently shared his thoughts on professional development are we preparing cooks or chefs? They echo some of my thinking. I dislike the term “training”  I am often asked if I will be…

Read More Read More

Promise, Potential, Achievement

Promise, Potential, Achievement

Comments 4 comments

First let’s set the context Take a moment…. Watch Hank Green – The Myth of Greatness and John Green – Deserving If you have time read John Green: Teenager, Aged 36 to give some perspective to what you just watched.  It’s a bit long, it begins as a book review but then goes back to the history of John and Hank and how they got to where they are now. It is a story of hard work, persistence, hope and…

Read More Read More

Be Different, You Are Different!

Be Different, You Are Different!

Comments 3 comments

I am tired of talking about standards, assessments, averages and classifying students. I don’t want to read about combating bulling and tolerating differences.  I want to celebrate the individual and all their “quirkiness”.  It is the people who did not fit the mold, who are not average or, more importantly, those who did not see themselves as one of the crowd who have made the biggest impact in art, science, business and literature. I spent most of my life trying…

Read More Read More

An Hour of Code

An Hour of Code

Comments 0 Comment

Next week is Computer Science Education Week, and to celebrate many are participating in an Hour of Code. The focus is to identify how computers and code is almost everywhere from the obvious mobile devices to your toaster and microwave and to “demystify” code. Some one needs to create these devices and develop code.  yet computer science is not taught in many schools. The hour of code has activities for student as young as 6 and even activities that do not…

Read More Read More

How do we Teach the Complexity of Truth?

How do we Teach the Complexity of Truth?

Comments 1 comment

One man’s truth is another man’s fiction. Wikipedia starts off with a pretty good definition of truth then goes on to a lengthy discourse on the philosophy of truth and its relative nature.  It is one of those funny terms we all know what it means yet we don’t seem to be agree on what is true, just watch the nightly news. When we teach our students Information Literacy and help them to become better researchers and users of information…

Read More Read More

Getting into Gaming

Getting into Gaming

Comments 2 comments

My son is a gamer he plays all types of games (card, board, live action and computers). He knows he wants to do “something” with computers when he heads off to college in a couple of years.  To help him figure it out he is taking a course on The Foundations of Game Design at our community college. He is particularly intrigued with the design of games; what motivates the player to keep going, strategy, scoring and leveling. He recently…

Read More Read More

iOS 7 and Accessibility

iOS 7 and Accessibility

Comments 3 comments

As we are all well aware iOS 7 was released earlier this week.  Change is inevitable; it is pure excitement and joy for some but not always easy for others. As any provider of tech support knows our focus is on the later. Apparently we know all the answers even though we are seeing the new iOS for the first time as well. Thankfully there are those excited to explore and test out the iOS and share their findings. Can’t…

Read More Read More