When planning curriculum and gathering instructional materials teachers are always looking for ways to differentiate for the diverse learners in their classrooms. As teachers we do this on a daily basis and we do it so often that most of the time we hardly realize we are doing it. It’s just a strategy we use […]
This quarter my cohort for my Digital Education Leadership program is being asked to look closely at ISTE Standards for Coaches #4 which relates to Professional Learning and Program Evaluation. Within that standard performance indicator B looks at technology rich professional learning: “Design, develop, and implement technology rich professional learning programs that model principles of […]
In reviewing my past blog posts, I notice that reflection is often found as an important step to a larger concept. In general, reflection is needed to gather a baseline of current practices and informs either knowledge gained or next steps for improvement. For educators, reflection can help guide instructional practice. In the “Applying Formative … Continue reading Why Reflection is Important
In reviewing my past blog posts, I notice that reflection is often found as an important step to a larger concept. In general, reflection is needed to gather a baseline of current practices and informs either knowledge gained or next steps for improvement. For educators, reflection can help guide instructional practice. In the “Applying Formative … Continue reading Why Reflection is Important
LEAF STEM Challenge The end of the year, (usually after testing), is a time that I am able to have a bit of freedom teaching my students. This is a great time to to take what we have learned throughout the year and apply it to a project using design thinking. What is Design Thinking? […]
How many times did the technological ‘Founding Fathers’ have to fail in order to create something our world could not live without? When I think about it, all of our founding fathers in American history, focused on citizenship at a deep level, they created, they failed, they redesigned, and they worked at the idea again… Continue reading Facilitate Failure to Allow For Creation
In reading Banks (1996), Chapter one, “The Canon Debate, Knowledge Construction, and Multicultural Education” examines the basic ideas of multicultural education and how as educators can incorporate knowledge construction into our curriculum. The debate between viewpoints, as Banks (1996) presents, … Continue reading
Physical computing – programming small microcomputers and combining them with electrical and non-electrical materials – engages students in ways that coding alone doesn’t. Intangible onscreen code suddenly makes something happen in the real…
This week as part of Seattle Pacific University’s EDTC 6103 Teaching, Learning, and Assessment 2 class, we were asked to …
This week in my DEL class I took on the task of researching “best digital safety practices” for educators. I felt really vulnerable on this topic. In my five years as a teacher and my 14+ as a consumer and producer on the Internet, I had relatively little knowledge on the subject. ISTE Educator Standard […]
