Fast Fact Sheets on Education Technology
I’m getting together some materials for my new administrator about different technology tools, and how they can be used in the classroom. I’ve done a series of quick overviews suitable for a busy...
View ArticleTwo links and some questions…
First, for those of you, who like me are following ISTE from afar, you can follow the Twitter feed in this neat “newspaper” format. Next, I’ve spent the last weekend nursing a summer cold (bleech) and...
View ArticleWeek in Lab Week Five 2010
My week was broken up a bit by a short stint in the jury pool for my county. I was not selected, so I only missed a day. In addition to my prep duties, I also cover a class for the first half hour of...
View ArticleDiane Ravitch Reign of Error Review
Since my review is more than a day late (and likely not worth a dollar), I needed to find a niche to focus on in my review. Fortunately, there was a small kerfuffle in the ed tech blogging world last...
View ArticleWeek in Class: Week Six 2013
Lots of good stuff going on but hard to find the time and energy to write about it. The times when things are going well are often the hardest to motivate myself to blog about. I spent some time out...
View ArticleAsking the wrong questions of technology…
There has been a huge roll-out of technology with the advent of SBAC testing in California (and elsewhere in the country with CCSS testing in all forms). But is this really making education better? Is...
View ArticleWelcome back (from/to) Winter!
Winter break is over, but winter is not. A typical January in Sacramento is a grey, grey time (see above, doesn’t that morning commute at the top right look fun?). We may have palm trees, but we do...
View ArticleThreat escalation and whitewashing as silencers
Being a little older (and wiser) I sometimes think back to those days after 9-11, and before we invaded Iraq, and the stories that were told about the threat that was posed by Saddam, the axis of evil,...
View ArticleWeek 2 in Distance Learning 2020
Week Two is the first, full five day week of teaching. It went good. The kids are getting from Zoom to Nearpod quicker, but it’s still taking time. Today, I’m going to talk about the SEL things I’m...
View ArticlePandemic Teaching – What’s up?
Responding to the call from Pocketful of Primary to answer questions about how teaching during the pandemic is going.
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