In the future, teaching will be more about coordinating and less about planning. Why am I passionate about Web 2.0 technologies? Because of what’s possible beyond what you may have planned for. Check out a great example of this happening here and here.
Category Archive: Learning
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Oct
26
No, grammar is not confusing . . .
Every day, my 8th graders tackle a paragraph riddled with errors and make corrections. I get these at Education World. We then go over the errors as a class. Pretty straight forward, right? Well, most of the time. This was today’s unedited text: Dedicated on October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a gift …
Oct
08
A gentle nudge: Moving teachers over
One of the things I’ve been busying myself with during this relative lull at CW.com, is this: We Teach We Learn, A blog for teachers, by teachers. Our official mission (yes, we even have a mission statement) is: –To inspire collaboration by providing tools teachers can use to move from independence to interdependence –To provide …
May
15
Smartypants Quiz
Got this in an email this morning. Worth passing along: (answers do follow) WORLD’S EASIEST QUIZ 1) How long did the Hundred Years’ War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get cat gut? 4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? 5) What is a camel’s …
Feb
09
Success via Failure
“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions, I was entrusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
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