STEM Education: Have you made promises you can’t keep?
Two years ago, I made my first visit to a Maker Faire. I wrote about that trip and about how I was both excited and confused by what I saw. I loved the fact that there were far more different kinds of...
Transcending Learning Tools
Have I ever told you how lucky I am? Over the last week, I’ve gone from a Design Thinking for School Innovation course to our school’s Arts Week where I got to hang out with some incredi...
What’s in a name?
Quite some time ago, I published a post called The Role of the 21st Century School Librarian that still seems to garner some attention. In it, I spent some time wondering about what a School Libra...
The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher – A Reflection
I don’t often do this, but I read a recent article in the Atlantic, The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher, that really got me agitated and I need to air some thoughts here. Michael Godsey, a ...
ISABC Pro-D Day 2015
I’m just home from a wonderful day of interacting with my colleagues from all of the Independent Schools’ Association schools at our annual Pro-D Conference and wanted to jot down a couple...
Learning Goals and PLEs
Most good teaching begins with a hunch. A year or so ago, I was trying to find a way of getting my students to understand the power of personal learning networks (PLNs) and the idea that their socia...
The Benefits of a Single Device 1:1 Program in Education
As my school wrestles with ideas around educational technology integration, I find myself thinking more more about the concept of a single device being deployed to every student and every teacher in t...
PBL vs Maker Learning
It seems to me, there are a lot of things in common between PBL and maker learning. But, there are also some significant differences. PBL often means project-based or problem-based learning. This ...