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A couple new ways to visualize the math
What could we do if we gave the students more control over how they presented their learning to us? A simple Google search for some random geometry topic… let’s choose angle pairs… reveals a whole...
View ArticleNext Vista for Education – What can video do for your students?
Usually the conversation about “videos for instruction” get relegated to the tired conversation about whether or not students learn best from a video or their live teacher #flipclass. This isn’t what...
View ArticleOur Students as Creators: My initial Thoughts
I wanna share this with you because I been thinking about it for a while now. In 2014, I began working in classrooms as a Instructional Tech Specialist, which is a bit of a misleading title, because...
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Our Students as Creators, Part 2
In the first post on this topic, I introduced the need for what I called “Creator’s Lessons”. I neither defined this term, nor did I support it in any detail. I intend to do both those things as we go...
View ArticleWhen you haven’t blogged in two years…
… it’s an odd feeling to try to restart the conversation. But, this is Covid-time and everything feels odd. So, I thought I’d write a little bit. Here’s what I’m thinkin’… When you don’t know what’s...
View ArticleCovid2020 has me rethinking homework…
I last taught in the classroom in 2014. From about 2010, I had developed a rather strong series of opinions of homework. The condensed version of those opinions would have sounded like this… Homework...
View ArticleTeaching during Covid – In their Own Words
I am the director of a regional educational support organization called REMC 13. It is a regional subgroup of the statewide REMC Association of Michigan. One of the projects we use to support our...
View ArticleTeaching 5th grade Math remotely – In her own words…
Brittany Oleszczak teaches 5th grade and she’s been teaching remotely for almost a full year now. Despite the struggle, she’s found ways to make this work fairly well for her students and her...
View ArticleTeaching HS Social Studies in 2020 – in his own words…
Dan Wizner is a high school social studies teacher. Throughout 2020, his school has been remote sometimes and hybrid sometimes. So, Dan has had to get creative. And his students have had to make some...
View ArticleReal or Fake #8 – 25000-ft free fall
So, I feel like we already covered this “jump out of plane… no ‘chute… land safely on something way, way, way softer than the ground” thing, but if you are remembering Real or Fake #3 like I am,...
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