Says Who?

It’s summer. I’m on Summer Time. So I’m admittedly a little behind the curve on current events. That’s okay. This story is good enough that we shouldn’t let it pass without comment. A few weeks ago, my wife and I took a little vacation to Canada. We left early Monday morning, and came back Thursday [...]

Posted on August 8th, 2010 by John Schinker
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E-book Wish List

I’ve been whining about ebooks for years. We’ve moved well beyond the place where information was a scarce resource. With its abundance, though, its value has diminished.  If I want to learn about hydrolysis, I don’t need to buy a book. I don’t even need to go to the library and look in a book [...]

Posted on July 1st, 2010 by admin
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Zac’s Keynote

On July 6, 2009, we started the first week of workshops with teachers at Liwa Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa. We had spent the previous couple days learning as much as we could about this community. As a result of apartheid, many of teachers and learners lived in informal housing — shantys that [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2010 by John Schinker
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Teaching in Our Teens

In his breakout session at our March 5 inservice program, Zac Chase started with one question: What do you want to learn today? The session became a conversation between the presenter and participants, highlighting some online resources, some new ideas, and some different perspectives. The topics discussed run the gamut from overcoming the challenges of [...]

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by John Schinker
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Helplessly Hoping

We see that the world has changed. We’ve been listening to the buzzwords for a decade now. Online learning. Digital citizenship. Web 2.0. Personal learning networks. Social networking. Data-driven decision making. We have to prepare our students for a world we can’t imagine. We have to re-invent our industrial age skills. If Rip Van Winkle [...]

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by John Schinker
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