How do we own learning?

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about teaching and learning and technology and how it all fits together. Partly because it I am in contact with it every single day in some way or another and partly because I am looking for blog post ideas. I see what teachers are doing in [...]

Wasting Time Learning

I have recently been involved in some “twitter” talk about learning and ways that people are going about it these days. I have also come across some blog posts on this topic and everyone seems to have the same thoughts running through their head. It seems that we are all procrastinators and that even though [...]

Survey says…..

I am introducing an excellent workshop this week entitled “Supporting Your Digital Child,” and in gathering some resources for the introduction speech I came across this visual. In keeping with my last few posts, I thought that this illustrated perfectly what I have been thinking.
The “internet stigma” as I have come to know it is [...]

Grammar and me…or is it I?

I was talking with a Language Arts teacher today about observing a future lesson. The conversation eventually turned to the importance of “teaching grammar” to our students. Now as a former Language Arts teacher myself I have thought about this quite extensively over the past 5 or so years. I began teaching in 1997 and [...]