One thing that can help greatly in the classroom is to reflect daily on your teaching practice. Reflect on well the lesson went, how the students did with the content for the day and how the class flowed. It is important to take time to reflect in order to make sure that we are constantly…
Google Apps have been a huge resource in my classroom and in the classrooms of teachers that I get to work with. Google Apps make it very easy to embed the 4C’s of digital learning in today’s classroom and are constantly improving to make the learning more effective each day. I have used the apps…
Students tend to be more engaged in a class when they feel like they are an active part of the learning process instead of just a bystander. One thing that I always enjoyed was allowing the students to help guide where we would go next in class or how we would go learning about our…
Today I led a PD session on using Social Media in the Classroom and the big idea that I think many need to hear is that we can use social media to share what is going on in our classroom. One easy thing you can do is to share what is going on in your…
One of the things I loved when I was in a 1:1 classroom was that I was better able to make sure that everyone was able to ask questions and get the feedback that they needed and wanted. We know that we have certain students that will always ask a question and have no fear…
One interesting occurrence that happened when I started having a class website was that students would actually read the interesting articles I would post on my site or tweet out. I did not assign them or even talk them up, I just told my students about the fact that I would be posting them from…
One skill that a digital learner needs is the ability to curate resources. There internet is full of so many different tools and resources that if you are not good at discerning the good ones above the bad and then being able to keep track of them, it can feel like taking a drink from…
Many schools seem to have an issue with social media use by students. They fear what students are putting out there and are afraid of what might happen if they are allowed to use social media during the day. Their answer – block it using the school internet filters. This does nothing really since most…
As today is the first day of June and many people have already started their summer, I still have a week and half left, I was trying to come up with an idea to help keep me focused on growing every day this summer. I decided to focus on writing a blog post every day…
I was out on a run this morning when I realized how much I wish our schools were more like my experience training for a 5K versus what some of them are like now. As I am a firm believer in trying to maintain a growth mindset, I believe that activities that force us to…
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