Imagine if students from each city created informational movies of their home cities to be shared with other children from all over the world. Impressive. You bet. I was stoked when the elementary librarian, Tara Etheridge, shared this idea with me. We quickly found a fellow enthusiast in Jeanine Merrill and her fourth grade students. [...]
Continue reading about Teaching Shanghai – by students for students
I found another gem of a video through a Twitter buddy – Rich White – from this website http://roots.greenbush.us/?p=478 Great dig Rich! The title of this video struck a deep cord hold on me. I found myself asking – what can I do to help change? What got me started in this path was I’ve [...]
Continue reading about Learning to Change, Changing to Learn
After reminding the students that I’m their technology teacher and not their computer teacher, they accepted last week’s TV Turnoff activity I had planned (I read one short story and then record their thoughts to some higher order thinking questions) In the end, I selected one to two classes from each grade level. Given I [...]
