Okay I couldn’t think of a better word than Twitterers because Tweeters just sounded wrong. Our PLC’s WA STEM Grant work has been moving along. At our first meeting everyone started a blog and wrote their first blog post. I wrote about and shared their blogs here: Becoming Bloggers. At our second meeting everyone started …
Tag: Blog
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May 13
Finland’s Race Leads Somewhere
I found this video on Mr. Bogush’s blog about the Finland Phenomenon aptly called, “The Finland Phenomenon.” I think that we can learn a lot from Finland. From 2000 to 2009 Finland has scored #1 in the world in Reading, Math, and Science. Yet in Finland students start school later, spend less time in school, …
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Jan 31
Uploading Photos with the iPad
My students are using two fantastic apps for uploading photos and pictures from their iPads to put on their blogs. If a student gets a photo on their iPad or draws a picture here are two apps for them to upload: The Photobucket app is fantastic! It’s free and creating accounts are free. Students just …
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Jan 21
Lessons I’ve learned from my Student’s Blogs
This is a post that I wrote when Joe Bower, who teaches middle school aged children in Alberta, Canada, asked me if I would write a guest post on his blog (see it here – Joe has an incredible blog where he writes often about changing education for the better). I jumped at the chance …
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Jan 15
Awards, Grades and Competition
I’ve been reading some great blogs and comments challenging some of schools most treasured traditions. Within my classroom and with the support of my principal I was able to abolish grades in an effort to support student learning. I try to foster cooperation in my classes because we are, after all, learning the same things. …
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Dec 21
Project Based Learning
I saw this on a Free Technology for Teachers blog, Video – Project Based Learning Explained, and I loved it! Check it out:
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Nov 29
Can Inquiry Be Structured?
Short answer, yes. There is a time and a place for everything. And even with inquiry there is a time and place for structure. I think learning a structure like the one in this blog is great for elementary teachers who teach Science. Is this the only way? No. Should you do this all the …
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Nov 12
Limited by Four Walls?
Sometimes I think I’d be a much better educator if it weren’t for being stuck inside the four walls of my classroom. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. There are things that I wish I had done better or differently that just wouldn’t be issues if we weren’t all trapped inside these same …
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Oct 17
Ed Reform? Okay.
I’ve never been a fan of teaching to a state test. I don’t mind assessing my students and I think it’s all right if students take common assessments to see how they’re doing. When I start teaching in South Central Los Angeles back in 1991 students were taking the CTBS multiple choice test. Knowing that …
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