This year I was tweeting so much of what I was learning at NCCE 2015 (#NCCE2015) that I just used Twitter as my note-taking format! Here are my tweets (I’ll be writing more about what I learned later):
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Mar 07
Video Games in the Classroom #gbl
I got an email from a student asking me if she could interview me for an essay she was writing for her English 102 class about video games in the classroom. After answering her questions I asked her if I could share my responses here and she said yes. Here’s what I wrote for her …
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Mar 02
Half Life as Educator
At the publication of this blog post I turn 48 years of age. What makes this age cool for me is that it marks exactly half my life spent educating youth in grades 4 through 8. I started teaching 4th and 5th grade in South Central Los Angeles in 1991. I was 24 years old. …
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Feb 25
Class Trek Mid Season Finale
In this mid-season finale to our ongoing Star Trek class story an incredible secret is revealed. The QR code is clickable. It has been awhile since the last part of our story, which was like a finale in itself. The place I put the QR code went pretty much unnoticed for about three weeks! I …
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Feb 24
1st Quarter WoW Complete #gbl
This all started as a 6th grade Exploratory class offered to all 6th graders for one quarter at a time. Students got off to a great start last quarter, the first time this class was offered to 6th grade students. As students began the class they agreed to our class charter, thought and wrote about …
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Feb 23
1st Quarter WoW #gbl
The above brief snippet is very representative of a typical day in the computer lab last quarter (technically the 2nd quarter of the school year but the 1st quarter for our WoWinSchools class). I had 27 sixth graders in that class, the students from my 1st period Science class. Using parts of the WoWinSchools curriculum, modified …
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Jan 02
Skills Learned in School
After writing about the 21st Century C’s I added the Caring C to the list of skills I had put together. I also found some other skills to add to it. It seems to me that Caring fits better with life skills than the four C’s. If we can help students practice the following skills …
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Dec 29
The C’s Revisited
After reading Bill Ferriter’s post NEW SLIDE: SKILLS MATTER MORE THAN TOOLS I began to reflect on the skills my students are gaining as they work and learn in my Science classes. Students have access to technology in my classroom just as they have access to pencil, paper and textbooks in other classes. The tech …
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Dec 27
Holding Students Accountable
As if in response to my Relationships or Taskmaster post, the Smart Classroom Management blog published the following post called Are You Afraid to Hold Students Accountable? It’s definitely worth a read as they make a valid point. According to Smart Classroom Management following your classroom management plan is the best way to hold students …
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Dec 12
Away Team
Here’s the next installment in the continuing Voyage of the Starship Equinox (the QR code is clickable): Star Trek Choose Your Own Adventure Class Story The Story Continues… Next Episode Following an Energy Trail Rule Out the Klingons? Away Team Mid-Season Finale Averting War Season Finale!
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