Learning and Laptops

Anne, I enjoyed your presentation yesterday and can easily imagine that you are a superb classroom teacher. At PBCC, we are building a new a...

Towards the end of the poetry unit, Maura Moritz suggested having the Honors students podcast at least one of their poems. The kids were ver...

Imagine: A place where students are adults and teachers are students. Imagine: A place where information is pulled, not fed. Imagine: A pl...

The past couple of years, I have been lucky enough to teach something that is a hobby to students. I am not really an expert in Astronomy bu...

All semester long, my students have been examining the big question of “ What Matters ?” What matters to them in their own lives, what matte...

Instead of using Blogger to continue the outside circle’s discussion of the assigned chapters for Fishbowl, we tried out Skype. Skype is a f...

While 12 of my Honors American Literature students were in Hawaii, I decided do to a little experiment with the somewhat grumpy students who...

I hesitated to talk here about video, being a history teacher and all. But Barb's post on te Fischbowl inspired me to share. Many of my...

We started looking at material for the final exam in Astronomy class. While this assessment has the possibility to look like many things I s...

When I was in college, I had some wonderful professors (Dawn Duncan and Jim Postema- Concordia College) who not only taught us how to think ...

I borrowed an adapted assignment from my good buddy Kristin called Fun with Brains regarding the characters from Fahrenheit 451 . Students w...

With the imminent approach of parent teacher conferences, I am interested in some reflections from my students over the past 9 weeks (this m...

I have waited to post here as I have felt that, in comparison to other laptop rooms, we have done little so far. We have blogged (sometimes...

With the exception of my first hour English 10 class, I teach in a "laptop classroom" where the laptops are not used on a daily ba...

The past few yars, in an astronomy elective that I have taught, I have presented material on all of the different types of telescopes that a...

The following comment appeared under my post "potpourri." I thought you could all help out Will... TIME OUT! TIME OUT! TIME OUT! T...

I do have to say things have been interesting in the Wonderful World of Constructivism (roll sound byte). Listening to the podcasts of my r...

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...