Posted on October 14th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Tools and techniques used in the right way can scaffold learning.
Teachers often use them to direct student learning experiences. When students engage with those same tools and techniques for their own purposes, their successes increase motivation and independent learning.
For example, teachers often tell young students to “read to find out”–setting a purpose for their reading. [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, Powerpoint, Uncategorized, blogging, education, video
Posted on October 7th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
It’s been 4 years, just about, since our first set of technology studio rules were created by middle school students. The rules worked very well: there were only a few, they were positive statements, and easily understood by lower school students.
Computer Use Policy (Old Version)
Get Permission! (To get online, to make changes, to [...]
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Filed under: AUP, My Middle School Tech Class, education, ethics
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by bookwyrmish
So, I have this really great video on tap, from Ken Robinson’s TED talk about the importance of educating for creativity and valuing the fine arts. Our school is gifted with being able to pursue those things.
I have a desire to share this sort of inspirational video with parents and co-teachers–the same way I’ve shared [...]
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Filed under: Cool Stuff I Found To Share, Fine Arts, Neurodiversity, education
Posted on June 2nd, 2007 by bookwyrmish
(A moment of reflection)
I have three tech chore lists going:
the regular (mostly maintenance) chores,
the “keep up” and “keep advancing” with tech changes chores,
and the end of school year chores.
Blogging is actually on the “keep up” and “keep advancing” list. At least, that’s where it was when I started blogging. Re-evaluating where it belongs is [...]
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Filed under: Information Literacy, Tech Among Teachers, education
Posted on May 13th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
I love this unit! It challenges students to demonstrate “competence” in a number of traditional skills, and then invites them to purposely put their own spin on the data, and decide what is important to communicate. Next, they make a graphical presentation which communicates “their” point about the data. It demonstrates a number [...]
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Filed under: Information Literacy, My Middle School Tech Class, education, graphics
Posted on May 9th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Welcome, by the way, to those people reading my blog from Mobile Learning or Point blog! It’s really neat that people have found their way here from those sites. I continue to be grateful and thankful for the peer network and feedback I have found at classroom2.0’s ning site.
I’ve been commiserating with my peers [...]
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Filed under: Tech Among Teachers, education, media
