Student, teacher, and even parent attitude all are what students are affected by on a daily basis.  If your friend doesn't like Coldplay, neither will you.  But, if your parents feel like math isn't something you need then you wont excel at it either.  Students, teachers, and parents play a primary role in what students want to learn.  Everyday I ...

I use to think that all students know how technology works and since I love using different types of technology in the classroom, that all students of the high school and middle school setting love using technology in-and-out of the classroom.  This may not be the case for some students who either can't afford high-end technology or have other ...

How do you facilitate learning in your classroom?  Is work done in desks, tables, up moving around, in bean bag chairs, on the floor, at the board, or in explorations?  The space in which a child learns is important.  If a school gets it wrong, learning can be constrained or even completely stifled.  Some learning rooms are unique learning spaces ...

At IRA I stopped at the Subtext booth and was completely surprised to find out that it was a FREE app for iPads.  I just started exploring it today to see how it might be used in a classroom, and I thought I’d pass along what I’ve found. First, you have to download it.  Search the app store for Subtext.  Download it.  Ta-da!  Step one complete ...

This is from a presentation I am doing this week with my ORC work.  Feel free to use: Social Networking for Teachers

Prologue:  Is a prologue allowed in a blog post?  I guess it is now. After writing and rewriting the post below in response to my colleague's Thursday afternoon post I'm still not happy with it.  So here's the short of it.  It's irresponsible to ignore the value of technology in education--AND--it is irresponsible to overestimate the value of ...

        teachers’s Channel – YouTube. You Tube has created its own “Teacher Channel” that shows ways to use videos in the classroom.  It even has lesson plans for use.

Photo Credit: http://www.glasbergen.com/ We have a lot of teachers doing a lot of wonderful things in education right now.  As I’ve said before, through all the muck, we are making some amazing strides for our children. Particularly in the realm of technology, where so many teachers are taking risks, learning new ways to teach content, and ...

I finally got around to setting up a class blog this summer, and I have it running pretty efficiently right now. Check it out:  nrenglish.wordpress.com On the first day of school, I showed kids the blog and asked them to take a Google docs survey that I created and embedded into wordpress–yes, it sounds complicated, but it was much easier than ...

Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Common Challenges We’ll Face This Fall – Challenge #6: Cell Phones. We can wage an endless battle that is bound to get worse in the future, or we can engage those devices and make them work for us. How many of us have used the money excuse to avoid using technology in our classrooms?  Now there is no excuse.  ...