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Higher Reading Scores, Dumber Readers?
[Note: I'm going to spend the summer cross-posting here any posts I wrote for Change.org's Education blog that I feel are worth the effort. This is the first.] U Virginia psychology professor Daniel...
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Students as Writers, Teachers as Audience
Betraying the Audience: Roman audiences were dangerous. Institutional schooling has perverted the understanding of far too many students of what the act of writing is — and the word “Act” is key:...
View ArticleHores are Good, Blackboard (TM) is Bad: Keynote Highlights Video #1
From D.’O.H! (the Dept. of Obvious Hypotheses): Credibility is earned: If students see that their teacher has met with non-schooly success in any of the skills s/he’s teaching in class, then students...
View ArticleBack into the Digital Breach: Help Me Out!
Maybe I need my head examined for the below, because figuring out how to do the schooliness and add a grade for so many types of assessment will be a bear, but I’m taking the plunge anyway. What...
View ArticleHomework: To Flip? or to Toss?
Forays into Flipping I’ve been edublog silent for a long time now, but buzz about the Flipped Classroom actually hit me human-to-human instead of via the interwebs. Teachers in my school are...
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I’d Give My RIght Arm for a Tool That…
…is cross-platform and collaborative, and would allow me to assign my current “fantasy unit test” in history classes. That unit test would have students create a conversation from home featuring...
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