My wife loves her vegetable garden. Michele will spend hours with her fingers in the rich soil, nurturing her tomatoes, zucchini, lettuce, green beans, jalapenos, watermelon, and sweet potatoes. I love Michele’s garden too: I get to eat the produce it generates. The problem is, so
Educational Technology is the white whale of today’s classrooms. To pursue the implementation of technology is a huge undertaking. Schools face so many challenges: access to Internet/devices, competing priorities for professional development funds, the overwhelming number of tools and resources available. It’s easy to find
When asking people to adopt a new idea or behavior, there are three general categories: early adopters, the majority, and laggards. Everett Rogers developed his Diffusion of Innovation theory in 1962. Based on my experience it seems as though his percentages are pretty accurate when
This post was originally published on KidWorldCitizen.org. The proliferation of technology in our connected society has trickled into our classrooms, whetting the appetites of savvy teachers and kids who have been born with technology in the palm of their hand. While it has been blamed for isolating individuals,
The era of standard teaching and standard learning is coming to a close. It may not be official, and many people may not see it on the horizon, but it is approaching. Research, best practice, and the need for higher levels of engagement around learning
Contributed by Barbara Bray Organizations in education are finally getting Personalized Learning right: it is all about the learner. It is not about calling it “Personalized Instruction” or “Personalized Education.” It is not about technology, curriculum, or instruction. It is about the learner making learning personal
I did not know what I was doing when I decided to change the way I taught. I did not know that somewhere out in the education world there was already a term floating around for some of the ideas I had for change, a term
It sounds like a club. The Connected Educators. Perhaps they may even sound like a group of educators who meet at the Hall of Justice, slap on capes and go to fight some sort of injustice in the world. Ok, so I’m showing my age
To say you should take your current PowerPoints and break them down into segments of video for your students would be to miss the point. You might want to first think of what is going to be done in class and then make a flipped
I spend a great deal of time looking up stuff. Whether that stuff is blog posts to get a pulse on what is happening in the edusphere or researching new tools to share with teachers, I come across a wide variety of resources that I need to