I’m wondering about how to reintroduce self-directed learning to students doing an excellent job of directing themselves to the work I’m designing for them.
To wit, here are the questions going through my mind this week.
Is it possible for reading and writing to get in the way of learning?
Do struggling readers and writers get rich, authentic [...]
The explosion of Web 2.0 and social media has given us and our students a prodigious number of tools to use for collaboration. We have an exponentially growing number of Plans B-Z to use when something doesn’t work. This week, our end of the Skype book club we’ve created with Karin Perry’s (@kperry) students fell [...]
My sources say these predictions for 2010 are pretty sound. Network macronodes will ditch the hubs and spokes and explode into clouds as learners carry new learning with them from opportunity to opportunity.
Social reading
I want synched e-readers with color screens and robust tablet features for annotation and audio/visual mark-up, and I want them licensed [...]
Yesterday I ran a Tech-To-Go kiosk at NCTE. It was a lot of fun talking with teachers eager to learn more about social media. At NCTE, I think there is a clear and strong desire out there, even amongst colleagues not yet on the PLN, to learn how to use technology to improve their teaching, [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
