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Re-Post - So How Could I Still Teach My Students If School Was Cancelled?
NOTE: This is a post from this last spring that seems timely now with schools being closed due to the swine flu. Note that because I have a new group of students, and we have not been able to access our laptops yet (and 19 of them have been rendered moot...
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Wed, Sep 30 2009 8:44 PM
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OK!
Me to one of my 4th grade students: “Hey, you’ve been out for 3 days, did you have the flu?” Student: “No, that’s what we thought at first, but I just had a fever, was throwing up, achy...
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Wed, Sep 30 2009 7:59 PM
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Process The Learning
I’m sure that you have heard that to integrate technology into your classroom and then continue to do what you have always done, just with technology, is a mistake. It is what has time and again led to failure in 1:1 programs and other tech integration...
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Wed, Sep 30 2009 11:08 AM
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Language Intense
One of the benefits of being part of a 1:1 program the last 3 years has been how language intense the experience has been. This is valuable no matter who your students are, but for my second language elementary school students, it has been even more than...
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Tue, Sep 29 2009 10:13 PM
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Update On Status Of Our 1:1 Laptop Program
Well we just finished the second week of school. I got a brand new set of 4th graders and they are raring to go. My 50 year old school got a complete overhaul this summer. The walls of each classroom that were concrete block are now covered in a material...
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Fri, Sep 11 2009 5:29 PM
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And We Are Wasting Time Arguing About The President Telling School Kids To Work Hard!?
And then you see this: Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: September 5, 2009 The New York Times Sheesh!!! Learning is messy!!! Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: homelesness, public schools Read More...
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Sun, Sep 06 2009 4:04 PM
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If Media Reported About Presidential Speeches Historically The Way They Do Now
9/7/09 UPDATE: Here is a link to the Speech. In light of the response to President Obama’s upcoming speech to schoolchildren about doing well in school. Schools here have been getting very angry calls from parents demanding that the speech not be...
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Sun, Sep 06 2009 10:23 AM
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Class Survey - My New 4th Grade Class
I decided to do this quick assessment piece with my students this year to get a sense of what resources they have, (I asked the blogging question because we will be blogging this year again and wondered if anyone knew about them), and their general knowledge...
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Tue, Sep 01 2009 5:13 PM
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How Can This Be?!
Today was the 1st day of school. How can it be that I’m already 3 weeks behind?! I mean really, that’s what teaching is like too often these days! How do we explain that? Learning is messy! Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: education Read...
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Mon, Aug 31 2009 8:07 PM
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The 21st Century Comes Home To Roost - Or - How Does A Family Of Four Survive On One Working Cell Phone?
So for reasons I tried my best to foresee but was out voted on, we got stuck with 3 particularly wonky cell phones and in a strange convergence all 3 mostly died in a 2 day period. We weren’t willing to pay $12 per phone to speed up delivery of...
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Mon, Aug 17 2009 9:08 PM
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Loma Prieta Earthquake 20th Anniversary
20 years ago today I was living with my wife of all of 2 months in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had just gotten home from school and settled on the couch to watch the Giants / A’s World Series when the place started shaking and the power went out...
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Fri, Oct 16 2009 8:27 PM
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My ISTE 2010 Conference Keynote Topic Suggestion: Teacher(s) In The Trenches
Teacher(s) In The Trenches What is missing from too many education conferences are examples of teachers who effectively accomplish exactly what the conference is promoting. Teachers and administrators just might connect with a teacher or teachers sharing...
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Sat, Oct 17 2009 10:00 AM
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To IWB, Or Not IWB? That Is The Question
This is one of those posts that started out as a comment on someone else’s blog. Namely Wes Fryer’s post: “No, just having IWB’s does not make learning engaging” (IWB = Interactive Whiteboard) ActivBoard, Smartboard, Mimio, TeamBoard...
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Sun, Oct 18 2009 4:24 PM
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As many as 1,000 parents, teachers unleash frustration at Palm Beach County School Board meeting
Was originally made aware of this by teacher Lee Kolbert over Twitter. She was monitoring the meeting and sending out numerous updates. From the Palm Beach Post: As many as 1,000 parents, teachers unleash frustration at Palm Beach County School Board...
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Wed, Oct 21 2009 9:17 PM
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Getting Closer
So we are already a quarter of the way through the school year and we are still waiting for laptops to arrive and IT to get them online. Not a great start if you are supposed to be a 1:1 classroom on the one hand, but we are ecstatic that it is even going...
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Sun, Nov 08 2009 3:31 PM
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