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Teaching off the cuff

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments

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.

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Tags: Learning · Teaching

No, grammar is not confusing . . .

October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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 of friendship [...]

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Tags: Learning · Parenting · Puzzles · Teaching · Writing

A gentle nudge: Moving teachers over

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments

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 a [...]

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Tags: Growth · Learning · Teaching