By Rita Platt What is your philosophy of education? This was the question that the professor asked us in my second year of my teacher education undergraduate program. Philosophy of education? I had no idea. In fact it wasn’t until [...]
I’ve been teaching for three years at St. Croix Falls Middle School, but have recently had to relocate to Stanley-Boyd, where they feel that they’re a good school, but are ready to make the push to be great. They’ve got a lot of big ideas, with the PLC being the most prominent. So, as a new teacher, I was recently able to attend a PLC conference facilitated by Eric Twaddle to learn about some of the expectations of my new school.
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An Annotation by Holly Waterman Collaborative and cooperative learning are labeled as “co-lts” in this chapter. They are both learning techniques that incorporate students working in groups, yet they consist of different strategies within these groups. Cooperative learning is led [...]
Fryer, W. (2006, October 6). Wiki, blog, or moodle? Retrieved June 9, 2008 from http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2006/10/wiki_blog_or_moodle.php. An Annotation by Jeff Ayer Fryer, in a blog posting, asks this important question: “Which Web 2.0 tool is appropriate for which educational task?” [...]
Fontaine, D. ( 2008, May/June). Welcome to the age of the wikitext! MultiMedia & internet @ schools. Vol. 15, Iss. 3. An Annotation by Jeffery Ayer Funds are difficult to acquire in districts these days, with budget cutting, economic downturn, [...]
Fernando, A. (2008). Baby steps in web 2.0 education. Communication world: 8-9. Web 2.0 includes many forums and technologies, but in this article, Fernando looks at what colleges and universities are doing with these technologies, and the potential that the [...]
As I sat down tonight, my original intent was to simply post this video in the Video of the Day section and be done with it. But I couldn’t do that. There is so much more to say!! I am [...]
The idea of this carnival is to share experiences of “edgy” teaching and learning. There are a lot of great things happening out there in the edusphere. More and more, we’re beginning to understand how to blend the art of [...]
The problem with blind spots is that you don’t know you’ve got them. I mean, it’s obvious to us today that students weren’t going to need a slate or homemade ink in order to be successful. But imagine living in that time. There was no way those people could have foreseen the changes that make us snicker at those statements today.
Might we also be clinging to faulty beliefs about what will make our students successful? But how do we identify them? What beliefs do we throw out? Which ones do we keep? What skills and content are we teaching that will be irrelevant in five years? What tools are we still using that are already outdated?
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