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See Think Wonder: Digital Literacy and Visible Thinking
Teaching is easy…Learning is Hard. At Google Teacher Academy, I had the honor of presenting an inspiring idea about how I use technology in the classroom. I really wanted to talk about how I try to get my kids thinking … Continue reading
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Tall Poppies And Google Teacher Academy
It was from my Australian friends that I learned the phrase “Tall Poppy Syndrome“.* So it’s somewhat appropriate that I try to write about my time at Google Teacher Academy in Sydney with a measure of humility and gratitude and … Continue reading
A Teacher Thinking Visibly
See, Think, Wonder Back in February, I signed up to take the Making Thinking Visible course offered through Harvard Project Zero. I had seen the teachers in the elementary school at YIS go through the class and heard how they … Continue reading
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Sustainabilty and Inquiry: Asking Questions, Failing and Learning
My kids are failing and struggling and I’ve never been more proud of them. We are in the midst of a project and I don’t know if they are going to get done what I thought they were going to … Continue reading
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Tagged CBL, energy, failing, I&S, individuals and societies, inquiry, pbl, sustainability, trello, YIS
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7th Graders (And One Teacher) Learning with Minecraft
Grade 7 seems like the wrong grade to pilot using Minecraft as a learning tool. This is an age where real-world interactions are difficult enough and empathy is sometimes lacking due to the fact that their bodies are rushed with … Continue reading
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Tagged 7th grade, alex guenther, GBL, griefers, humanities, minecraft, myp humanities
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Zen and Connections in Theory of Knowledge
My goal of my COETAIL final project was simple: Have my Grade 11 Theory of Knowledge kids do something is now second nature to my middle school students. The rest of this post is a long discussion of how I … Continue reading
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Tagged coetail final project, presentation, presentation zen, TOK
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What I wish I could write in reports
I’m in the middle of writing reports and I’m stressed* . I’m writing paragraphs about each student and I’m trying to convey to parents (and anyone else who reads it) what the kid has learned this semester. I’m trying to … Continue reading
Things I know and things I don’t know: COETAIL edition
In less than a month, I’ll be presenting my final COETAIL project. Eventually I’ll have something in the mail from SUNY Buffalo saying I have earned a Certificate of Educational Technology and Informational Literacy. So as this is my penultimate … Continue reading
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Textbooks and the 21st Century Student
Over the last 20 to 30 years, textbook publishers have become averse to bold historical narratives for fear of being labeled as too liberal, too conservative, too patriotic, or too sexist….Instead they have become encyclopedias of historical names, places, and … Continue reading
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Going Old School: Syria and Current Events in MYP Humanities
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by ndbekah I started my grade 10 MYP Humanities class with one of the most “old school” assessments in a long time. It required glue and notebooks and newspapers that … Continue reading
