Last week I spoke with one of the MS Humanities teachers at UNIS about their upcoming unit on Africa. Back in the US, I taught two semester-long courses on Africa, one on East Africa and one on West Africa, so it’s a subject that I know a bit about and […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
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Every morning at UNIS we read the morning announcements to my homeroom of 23 grade eight students. Today there were no announcements, so I decided to use the time to get feedback from the students about one of our current tech initiatives. This year we decided to give the staff […]
Back in 2005, Marc Prensky wrote in Edutopia that the main barrier to achieving this ‘edutopia’ was the hardware obstacle of getting to 1-1 computing. In Clint Hamada’s presentation at Learning 2.0 in Bangkok, he talked about a new 2:1 initiative at Yokohama International School in which the 7th grade […]
Last weekend I was fortunate to attend and present at Learning 2.014 in Bangkok, Thailand. In his closing session, Jeff Utecht talked about how some teachers have been pushing the envelope of technology since the 1800s and before. He talked about how teachers pushed for the adoption of slates instead […]