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Category Archives: Project Based
A Little More Ranting
After experiences and conversations of late I felt this needed to be restated: The key with technology use in education is that IT NOT be about teaching technology. That is one of the big hurdles people have to get over. … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Education, Project Based, Student Access
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15 Seconds (not minutes) Of Fame
Oh-oh! The downside of doing an interview is living up to it! (Down to it?) I was contacted by Harris Salat over at Visual Thesaurus a few months back. He interviewed me over the phone and here’s the finished product.
A Small – But I Hope Significant Breakthrough
What Happened To The Time? I haven’t managed to post in a couple of weeks – getting ready for the school year, planning and presenting about the Activboards we received and the digital cameras we bought for each classroom in … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Crosby, Change, Education, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
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It’s Not About the Tech
One of my first experiences with tech being thought of as the end all, be all, happened about 20 years ago. I was teaching 6th grade at a very high-income public school in California. Being a new teacher at the … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
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Where are the “Best Practices” Examples!??!
One of the most popular posts (judging by the number of comments it received) on this young blog (6 months old) was Working, Breathing, Reproducible, Intriguing Models – where I lamented the seeming lack of good models of project/problem based … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Change, Digital Video, Education, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Student Access, Technology
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Another Powerful, Easy, Way Cool, “Messy” Experience!
I just got done being an active participant in Wes Fryer’s presentation at the Mid-America Technology Institute – 2006 in Kansas … and I never left my family room in Reno, Nevada. I responded to Wes’s questions, role-played with an … Continue reading
These Guys Get It!
Will Richardson posted today about his experience at SLA this week – it ties in with David Warlick’s post from yesterday about what he heard about teachers in China teaching less and planning more. From Will’s blog: It was the … Continue reading
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Help set the agenda for our next Skypecasts and join in!
Brett Moller has already picked up the ball and set a possible agenda for another Skypecast to further the work started so ably by Wes Fryer. And as I write this I see Wes has already posted a new Skypecast … Continue reading
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How To Spread The Word? – Use The Media, Doesn’t Everybody Else?
Us edtech – project-based, folk have lamented for a long time how slow others have been to adopt the new tools and methods of the 21st century (although many of these methods are not new at all). We have talked … Continue reading
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Why Go To NECC When You Can Just Skype It!?
OK so nothing is like really being there … but this was pretty good. Wes Fryer set up an international Skypecast to share what was learned at NECC 2006 – thanks for laying the groundwork Wes! Here’s a link to … Continue reading