In Practice

This is another post prompted by something written by Bill Ferriter at The Tempered Radical.  He writes a “rant…I’m tired of the combustable combination of whiny teachers and ineffective policymakers.”
In his post, he complains about his colleagues who make excuses for not embracing technology and takes on policymakers who don’t make time available for teachers to become familiar [...]

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Hey, a girls entitled to change her mind…
Earlier, I talked about why Larry Ferlazzo got it right when he said face to face relationships have a quality that can’t be replicated online. Now, I’ll bring some thoughts up to the contrary.
Here are some caveats to that point…Larry himself, has already had to eat his words [...]

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I was recently reading a post in the excellent blog The Tempered Radical, which was quoting another teacher as saying other teachers “…believe that you can’t truly know someone unless you have face-to-face opportunities to get to know them.”  The post questioned that belief, and wondered if that was primarily because online relationships were generally [...]

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My class has been involved in a 1:1 laptop pilot for about a year now (as 4th and now 5th graders). There have been certain advantages to being the “Lone Ranger” in this endeavor. I fly “under the radar,” because this is not a grant driven project. Its something we are doing [...]

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Elementary is a different bird when it comes to filtering.  Many people who have filtering issues will concede that there needs to be filtering of materials at the elementary level.  As an elementary computer lab teacher, you can tell students not to “wander” the Internet and only go to assigned sites, but it’s the nature [...]

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