10 Tips to Connect Students Through Blogging
As we touched on a few weeks ago, a great way to start connecting your students to each other and to others outside the classroom is to begin blogging. Not only can blogging give students a voice, but it also has the potential to change the way they write. Over the...
Coach. Better. Episode 9 Show Notes
This week I talk to Reid Wilson, Year 5 Homeroom teacher at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand. Reid shares his experience as a classroom teacher working with a wide variety of coaches, both at NIST and in his previous schools. Reid shares his perspective...
Helping Parents Understand Your Connected Classroom
As you build your connected classroom, you’ll have to plan how you will implement things. It can be intimidating to introduce your connected classroom to your students, and even more so to their parents. So, how can you make the introduction of the connected classroom...
Are children learning when they’re playing games online?
Children are spending more and more time on their devices, particularly playing games like Pokemon Go, World of Warcraft, FIFA, and Minecraft. In addition, a study about educational games shows nearly 60% of teachers use educational video games weekly in their...
Coach. Better. Episode 8 Show Notes
In this episode we chat with Jess Keummerlin, Innovative Learning Coach at Shekou International School. Jess highlights the importance of empathy in building strong coaching relationships with members of his school community and shares some tips from his coaching tool...
Digital Citizenship in Your Connected Classroom
In the connected classroom, students have the opportunity to connect not only with their classmates but others around the world. As connections span across different countries, cultures, and languages, students need to learn the skills to be good digital citizens. ...
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Navigating Media Online
If you’re the parent of a tween, ages 8-12, you have likely seen a change in digital habits. Often times, there is a shift from gaming on devices to texting, instant messaging, and sharing on social media. This trend continues as your tween grows to a teenager when...
Coach. Better. Episode 7 Show Notes
This week we’re chatting with Rebekah Madrid, Middle School Principal at Yokohama International School in Japan. Rebekah shares her perspective about coaching as a school leader, along with insights about making coaching work in a mid-sized school, as well as some...
Three Tips for Planning Tech-Rich Projects
At times, the idea of planning or reworking your existing units to include technology can seem like a daunting task. But it doesn’t need to take a large amount of time - even taking 10 minutes each week to rethink a unit that has been challenging - either you don’t...
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As more and more schools go one-to-one, giving every student a connected device we have to understand that this fundamentally changes the learning landscape. Not just in our classrooms but in our communities at large. Giving every student a laptop levels the content knowledge in the classroom. When it comes to accessing content everyone is on the same plane. If everyone can access the content needed to master a class the moment they need to know that content then we need to rethink what the time in class should be used for. No longer do students need to be in school to learn. Let #leadingthechange, written on March 4, 2016, by 25 educators from across the state of Washington, during an Eduro Learning Institute, be your guide to the next steps in learning in your school!
