Some great advice for both student and adult presentations from the always on point, Dan Meyer.
The Digital Day in the Life of a Teacher
I really like ‘day in the life’ stories from teachers, leaders, and learners. They can help us to notice and name the seemingly invisible moves we all make in schools.
Powering Personalized Learning in Chicago
Sometimes stories of what ‘it’ looks like can be enough to get teachers and leaders thinking. Here are a few examples from Chicago Public Schools.
Making equity a first principle of personalized learning
Great frame for how Personalized Learning is and should be about equity for kids. The new organization, The Equity Design Collective, will also be important as we continue to research and implement best practices.
First Review of New Google Earth
With this release, Google Earth becomes available for our thousands of kids using Chromebooks every day. This means that there will be far more exploration of place and context in our classrooms. It is a great opportunity to break down the walls!
100 days Reflections: Day 70 | 100 Days
One of my favorite Young Adult authors and makers of Youtube videos, John Green, exercised for 100 days straight. This is day 70, and it is a wonderful example both of reflecting well and how to think about supporting mental health with kids and adults.
The educators at EdCamp Revolution want you to know the revolution will not be standardized
It is always a good idea to look at which voices are not apart of the personalized learning conversation. How do we bring more diverse voices to the table?
I really like this statement: ‘You might not (always) be able to measure learning, but you can document it.’ Great questions asked and answered here.
Using Google Voice With Student Writing Projects
Such a great tool for allowing more Student Voices in the classroom using the ‘lowest common denominator’ resources, like a cell phone.
Skill Checklists for Google Certified Educator Level 1 and 2
Wonderful resource to check off your own skills for becoming a Google Certified Educator.
Really amazing use of 3D printing for creating models and other thinking tools with legos.
Demonstrating your learning visually shouldn’t be so hard, and with this Google experiment it doesn’t have to be. Check out all of the ways you can draw poorly and have the results turn out beautifully.
This is one of my favorite examples of Project-based learning I have ever seen. Please watch and let’s discuss how we can create more opportunities for making this happen.
In this quick review of these two new chromebooks, I take a look at what it is like to have access to the Google Play store within a Chromebook environment. I talk about some of the opportunities as well as some of the drawbacks of working with these devices before ChromeOS and Android have fully gotten used to one another.
In this deeper dive into the Asus Chromebook C302C (this is what it says on the chromebook itself, even though most of the reviews call it the C302CA), we go into the experience for installing and using android apps on this chromebook. We also experience a crash while trying to load a drawing app, and talk through what is possible now that this snappy chromebook is available and on the market.
I will interview John Spencer about his approach to creating videos for teachers and leaders around the world, and how he is creating a community on Youtube with his thinking and making.
In this mini-review, I take a look at the Acer Chromebook R11 and how it fairs in the Antutu benchmark in comparison to Android phones and tablets. I also discuss some of its key features and what I have tried on this device to push what is possible on a Chromebook with Google Play.
I’m so excited to learn from @spencerideas on Thursday about how he makes “Creative Videos for Educators”