Posted in Humor on May 26th, 2008 8 Comments »
I just saw the newest Indiana Jones movie, after having re-seen the first three last week. Here is my list of light-hearted and semi-serious thoughts on How A Good Teacher Is Not Like Indiana Jones. Feel free to add your own ways on why a teacher should not (or should) be like the famed action [...]
Posted in Humor, Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Uncategorized, technology on Feb 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
Many bloggers have written complaining about teachers not using technology in their classrooms. Rather than complain, Jeff Utecht’s recent post on “Evaluating Technology Use” established a rubric for evaluating technology use. But what if you are a new teacher or you aren’t using technology in your classroom now? It’s not reasonable to expect that you’re [...]
Posted in Humor, Practice, Theory on Oct 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Recently there have been some back and forths between various edubloggers (in some cases, one is tempted to say “so called” edubloggers, but I digress). One spitting contest (that really is a better metaphor for the particular exchange I’m referring to), led to a back channel chat among some of us. The discussion centered on [...]
Posted in Humor, Policy, Practice, Theory on Sep 5th, 2007 16 Comments »
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We have some really incredible teachers who happen to also be awesome writers. They have interesting stories to tell.
If we can make information technology, collaborative curriculum, and constructivist instruction work in the classroom, it can be done. All these approaches have to work with our children, not just [...]
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