54. What is an opinion you’ve changed since becoming an educator? #LifeWideLearning16 @bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 23, 2016 Life experience is very easy to write off when you don’t have any. It seems inconsequential and more of a burden than a blessing as you find yourself in your …
53. What education philosophers speak loudest to you? #LifeWideLearning16 @bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 22, 2016 I do not often reach for Dewey or Vygotsky when I am trying to sort out a particularly thorny educational issue. I don’t even seek out living theorists like Papert or Chomsky all that …
I am really interested in the “myths” that are debunked in this study: Myth 1: New technologies are being developed all the time, the past history of the impact of technology is irrelevant to what we have now or will be available tomorrow. Myth 2: Today’s children are digital natives …
52. What law would you immediately take off the books? #LifeWideLearning16 @bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 21, 2016 E-rate funding has been the driving force of technology purchasing in schools for the last couple decades. It has encouraged more schools to think more strategically about their device purchases as …
51. What law would you put on the book? #LifeWideLearning16 @bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 20, 2016 While you have young kids, their care is pretty much all that matters. Between the time that they are born and when they are first enrolled in elementary school, there are approximately 1500 …
50. What rules do you impose on yourself at work? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 19, 2016 I have tried the pomodoro technique and timeboxing. I have tried Kanban and Wunderlist. I have tried Basecamp and Pivotal Tracker. I tried each of these products and ideas all in an effort to be …
49. What rule for your life do you find yourself constantly revising? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 18, 2016 Doing my job used to mean arriving far before children arrived at school and staying far after for grading and guitar club. After that it meant setting up a half-dozen …
48. What rule did you secretly hope your students would break? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 17, 2016 Accelerated Reader is/was a reading program that allows students to take multiple choice quizzes on books that they have read. If a student does well on such a quiz, they are …
47. As a parent, what rule is non-negotiable? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 16, 2016 I negotiate dessert. Not every night is a “dessert night” and not every action requires a reward. There are some days that we haven’t had dessert for a while and there are others that …
46. As a teacher, what rule is non-negotiable? #LifeWideLearning16@bhwilkoff — Zac Chase (@MrChase) February 15, 2016 Middle school children are always afraid of being “copied.” They loathe when their brilliant ideas is being taken, without asking, from one of their classmates. If even a whiff of plagiarism can be smelt, …