The last two weeks I’ve worked with about 18 sophomore pre-AP classes who are in the midst of research papers on electronic privacy and intellectual freedom. After conversations with the teachers, I developed a lesson to involve the students in website evaluation–because particularly with this topic, I knew they’d be running across many points of [...]
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Articulating our learning
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Student projects, Web 2.0
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Do we care what they say?
February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Student projects, Teacher Learner
Funny the little moments of serendipity that lead from one thought to one another, and lead us to see something in a new light. This morning, someone on Twitter reminded me of a blog post I wrote a long time ago, “How Long Does it Have to be?” about how students focused on the length [...]
The classroom heard ’round the world
February 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
What happens when what is going on in your classroom can be shared around the world? Today, by sharing his students at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, Karl Fisch gave us just that opportunity–to peer into a classroom and see networked, scaffolded, engaged students at their best. For weeks, students in several English classes at [...]
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Moving beyond four walls
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Student projects
He liked to tear around on his tricycle. He died in Vietnam when he was 25. His name is Brian O’Callaghan and he is one of the many soldiers whose name appears on the Vietnam Wall. His sister shared this photo with one of our students as part of a project our junior English [...]
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Seeing is believing, part two
February 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Change, Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
No one who watched the ads on the Superbowl doubts the impact of a well-designed visual. But in schools, we often neglect that power. It is harder to make a striking visual, because it takes more time to make a well-designed handout—or a powerpoint that is thought-provoking—or a digital video that has impact—or even a [...]
Learning from our students–the roving librarian
February 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Student projects, Teacher Learner
Yesterday, I took the library to the students. As those of you who read my blog may know, we’re closed for a renovation, and I’m currently working out of the ninth grade center library, which is a trek from the main high school. I So in an effort to bring services TO the students, I’m [...]
The peanut butter cup effect
February 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
How do you empower students to engage with a text in such a way that they can come to their own understanding of it? I just participated in a fascinating live blogging experiencewith Maura Moritz’s and Karl Fisch’s students at Arapahoe High School. The students were using the inner/outer circle discussion method in their classroom to discuss [...]
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How long does it have to be?
November 14th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Design, Student projects
Probably one of the most frequently asked classroom and library questions about a project, paper, or even when a student is asked to check out book is–”How long does it have to be?” There are lots of things embedded in that question that bother me. First off, there is the notion kids have that [...]
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Lessons learned?
November 13th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Student projects, Teacher Learner
At our campus we’ve been working on a professional development strand on student voices, and as I wrote about recently, held student panels in order to get feedback from our student body. One thing I learned during the session is that our students, too, are suffering from information overload and we need to be providing [...]
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We’ve gotten Kudos!
November 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Innovation, Student projects
Bob Witowski at our campus has just received a coveted “Kudos from Drape” award from Darren Draper (who created the Pay Attention video, if you’re not familiar with his work) for Bob’s experiment using cell phones in his Algebra classroom. We’re mixed in with some pretty good company getting this award, so big congratulations [...]
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