Elementary Guidelines for Peer Feedback on Student Blogs
Here is a document I created to help my students give valuable feedback to each other. Some of the sentence starters were taken from the Five Forms of Feedback notes I took at a Cognitive Coaching workshop given by Bill and Ochan Powell at NIST International...
Course 1 Final Project: Investigating Kindergarten Timelines
Background As we went through course 1 on COETAIL and I started to think about my final project, I focused my thinking on one thing: How can I integrate technology so that it enhances learning in a part of the curriculum we are already doing? After going...
Minecrafting Our Moral Reasoning: Course 1 Final Project
My interest and passion in video games has been in sharp decline ever since the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was pushed off its pinnacle by Sega and Super Nintendo back in the early 1990’s. In fact, I more or less retired from the video game world after Atari...
I Can See the Future! Or Can I?
This picture pretty much illustrates how I feel when I get to that point of each week after I've done my readings and browsed Feedly. Every week except for one, I've posted two different blog post. Looking around my RSS reader, it seems I'm not alone in this habit....
Teddy Travels the World!
Meet Teddy! I love exploring the world of global education and seeing how I can connect my students to people and places beyond the classroom. When I saw that the focus of this week's assignment was global education projects I of course wanted to introduce one that...
Being a Concept
We used to teach about content. Now we teach through concepts. The next step, in my opinion, should not be to teach students about or through concepts, but rather for students to become them. Everyone knows the Ghandian quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the...
What Students Think About Digital Learning: Digital HOTS Part III
During the same week I instructed my students how to use Google Forms to collect data, I decided to do a bit of data collection myself. I was stuck on whether digital HOTS projects were taking up too much time in my classroom and wanted to get their perspective on it....
Synthesizing Learning Engagements: Digital HOTS Part II
This blog post is a continuation of thought from the previous reflection entitled, “Are Digital HOTS Worth The Time They Take?" In the week since first posting on this thread of thinking, I have reconfirmed that the theme that seems to be running through my life on...