I’m off to Bangkok for the Apple Distinguished Educator 2007 Asia Institute in 24 hours, so I’m crazy rushed: sub plans for 3 missed classes, packing, the usual teachery stuff (gradebooks and other banes), prepping a presentation for how 1:1 is working (and sometimes not working?) at our school. (I really look forward, more than [...]

I’ve chronicled my fantasies (and here) and ice-water reality-baths about this project so far. I told you last week or so how my initial approach – to invite buy-in rather than “assign homework” – didn’t work. Too many students were simply not writing. That carrot failing, I went “teacher-y” and used the grade stick. It’s [...]

Re: This: First response: “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have me as a member.” — Groucho Marx Second response: “The people in my blogroll (see left sidebar) are my own nominees. What’s the meaning of such an exercise?” Third response: “But the edublogs folks have done a lot of service [...]

If you’ve got an hour to burn, you might enjoy watching Will Richardson and Gary Stager in this moderated keynote discussion at NYSCATE recently. (h/t to David Jakes for “bootlegging” it with his laptop for UStream.) Stager’s skepticism about much of the edublogosphere discourse is a healthy corrective for the “cheerleader 2.0″ bandwagon we’re all [...]

Shim, a senior in my AP Lit class, started a mini-debate with his post, “Students or Slaves?” Nicole linked and extended, then Jane disagreed, then Daniel jumped in with this Think about it as Lego. If one wants to build something, the basic pieces are needed. Without the pieces, a building cannot be built. In [...]

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Just want to share a comment I left on Taylor the Teacher’s blog. I don’t think Taylor took my flip post questioning her gender ungraciously, but at the same time found the fact that such a gesture surprised her a bit of food for thought. Here:   This is all so interesting – not sure [...]

After my first outing doing a rather “schooly” self-assignment for AP Literature, I got what I asked for: friendly and constructive criticism – “assessment”? – from Dean Shareski, Bud Hunt, AnneO, Diane Cordell, and my flat world team-teacher/blood brother Chris Watson – all whom I thank for taking the time. So you’ll notice these changes: [...]

When you work at a 1:1 school – really, when you’re a teacher who assigns any digital storytelling projects to your students – it only seems responsible to know whereof you assign. So I assigned myself a language arts project for my AP Literature class: Task: Using illustrations from historical editions of John Milton’s Paradise [...]

Graham Wegner tweeted about her a couple of weeks ago. I followed. And now, I am snared. I can’t get the vamp out of my mind. Who is . . . “Taylor the Teacher”? I can’t help but suspect that, like the Yes Men I wrote about a while back, those fantastic satirists and impersonators [...]