Do you have a lesson idea involving metacognition? Please share it as a comment below.
Larry Fellarzo added a new article to his post on “Another Lesson Combining Metacognition, Writing, Speaking, & Listening” that sparked some ideas for writing
The first site would be awesome for a music lesson/background music for classes, events or parties.
I know a few of you are delicious bookmark users and the site may be closing, so there is a link to
Here is a great guest post on Free Technology for Teachers on asking students for feedback on improving coursework:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/02/listening-to-our-students.html
I plan to ask students to fill out this form as a teacher evaluation:
Click for form.
I found it
An excerpt from Massive Change by Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries:
Jaime Lerner:
“A city needs to have a daily plan and daily processes that encourage constant learning.”
“Every child should know the design of his
The assignment was to write a 4 page treatment on a shared Google Document linked from the class list wiki page answering the following questions: What defines your culture or subculture?
What is cool or interesting about your culture
I often remind my students that mistakes are a good thing.
Identifying a mistake and thinking about changes and improvement becomes a new skill. I think it is important to discuss this process every time a mistake is made; the
Just right-click on the video and select “Copy video URL at current time”. It’s probably a good idea to pause the video before using this feature. Thanks to Alex Chitu for posting this article.
I just submitted my application to test drive 25 notebooks with my classes.
Here are my answers to Google’s questions:
Why is your organization ready for a notebook that only accesses the web and web apps?
We are in the
The past 5 years have brought about many positive changes in how we can collaborate using technology. Having students collaborate outside of the classroom over weekends and even summer breaks have been my driving force to refine a social network
I am running a monthly workshop for teachers in my high school called Google Bootcamp. I’ve created a Google Site and a Google Group to help support the lessons in the workshop. Here is my reflection on the first