Posted in Humor, Resources, Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
[Cross-posted at The Cornerstone Blog]
Can one student threaten the stability of an entire classroom and prevent a teacher from being effective?
Is it possible to bridge the gap for EVERY child?
How can teachers and students keep from drowning in the sea of distractions that compromise learning each day?
These were the questions I was wrestling with during [...]
Posted in Humor, Research on Mar 14th, 2009 No Comments »
This session is being presented by Peter Jonas, and is the last one for Saturday. More sessions follow on Sunday at 8:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3:00 p.m, and 4:45 p.m.. I’ll be live-blogging the afternoon sessions (is there anyone who’s not at the conference that would be up at 8:30 a.m. to follow a [...]
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 [...]
