I met Dr. Gary Stager last spring at the ASB Unplugged event in Mumbai, and had a great time at the Maker Space workshop with his partner, Dr. Sylvia Martinez. Afterwards, I bought their book, Invent to Learn, and found many of their ideas fascinating. I was a big fan […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
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For the final project for COETAIL Course 2, I worked with Jeff Wrensen and Mairin Raisdana on a Digital Footprint scavenger hunt / detective work. The plan is to help students see how “Everyone can mold their image online and should be aware of the message that it sends to […]
Last week I had the good fortune of getting to hear Ruben Puentedura speak at the 7th annual 21st Century Learning event out here in Hong Kong. My big takeaway: I had seriously misunderstood his SAMR model of tech integration. In fact, most of my colleagues had also misunderstood it. […]
There are lots (LOTS!) of educator tool roundups. Here is a great slide deck with the top 100 tools of 2014: Above: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 from Jane Hart Interestingly, Twitter retained it’s rank at #1 from last year, and Google Docs kept up at #2. Although I […]
Some questions related to online safety are quite straightforward. When we ask, “Whose responsibility is it to teach students to be safe online?” the clear answer is “It’s the responsibility of everyone involved.” It is the responsibility other students, siblings, parents, teachers, tech coordinators, librarians, principals, heads of school, mainstream […]