Learning and Laptops

My first hour English 10 class has been using the laptops daily for the past week to create a mockumentary (a partly fictitious documentary)...

To My Students, You took on a new challenge this year, unbeknownst to you. I imagine this summer you never thought you would be starting th...

Students have created quite the discussion about the use of laptops in the classroom under a previous posting Becoming One with the Text . I...

Yesterday was a little interesting. You see, the students had a short quiz on ions in chemistry (I am sure that those of you who read this t...

My regular ninth graders have been challenged! Instead of education as usual where the teacher gives all the information to the kids, I hav...

I asked my ninth graders to reflect on what we have been doing in class these past few weeks as well as reflect on a little experiment we tr...

I think I might be putting paper companies out of business as well as the sticky note companies with the use of laptops while we read. I use...

Today was fun... I was having the kids read a short story online called "The Lady and The Tiger". What made this task more diffic...

The kids all needed to complete a timed writing sample on Friday and so I figured what the heck I don't have enough stress going on in m...

The kids seemed to be experiencing a little bit of the George Bush syndrome of being shocked and awed. They aren't quite sure what to ...

So the school year is about to begin and we are embarking on this journey of revitalizing education at AHS through the use of laptops with o...