I don’t want to change the org chart or the ways in which we define roles and responsibilities, but rather the idea that there is a single way that we can fit our roles together.
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Before GPS was in everything, before it was in phones and tablets, before it was helping us with driving directions and telling us where the closest bathroom was, it was a simple set of coordinates that allows us to navigate to particular position on the planet. And we liked it …
I am engaged by this idea that conversations could be considered metadata and could be used to drive instruction or differentiation. How would that work in your learning environment?
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It isn’t often that I see technology completely disappear in a classroom. More often than not, it is ever present and in your face. It screams, “Look at me! I’m so shiny and new!” And even more often, it describes “first practice” rather than “best practice.” At Grant Beacon Middle School, for …
Web 2.0 tools are unreliable at best and unavailable at worst. They don’t work the way they did last week because of their constant feature updates. They don’t allow for us to own many of the things we create either. They are, in fact, the worst tools for collaboration that exist, except for everything else that we have tried.
This video makes the case that despite their shortcoming, Read/Write tools are the best way to create and share our work and realize Authentic Learning environments.
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