http://ivyrun.com/wordpress thinking about education Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you know me or have read this blog at all, you probably know that I find the term "21st century skills" a little annoying especially since they include things like creativity and problem solving. As though we have some corner on the market of those things because we ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/03/11/21st-century-skills-programming/ First a word to my students: do as I say and not as I do. I know that this semester, I've really asked you to stretch yourselves in terms of using technology. You're blogging and twittering and participating in a Ning. Tonight, we'll be exploring Second Life ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/03/03/my-march-resolution/ I had a funny, when-I-was-their-age moment. I had found my way to this Teachers Network website and saw this headline: IF U CN RD THS U CN LRN TO RITE, which linked to an article about adding a twist to the typical "what I did this summer" essay by ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/02/20/140-we-used-to-do-it-in-8/ Each year I am invited to spend a Saturday with the principalship class at William and Mary. We talk about the big picture issues related to technology in schools and spend time figuring our the role of the administrator in encouraging teachers to use technology as part of their ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/02/09/serendipity/ I created a bundle at Google that includes a variety of tech-related RSS feeds, mostly from the Horizon Report folks. Here's the link. http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/01/29/my-google-reader-bundle/ One of the themes that came out of last week's online course discussion about Web 2.0 was a sense that if you had an active online life, you didn't have such an active offline life. Some students indicated that they didn't spend much time online as they did other ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/01/27/rl-sl-isnt-it-all-l/ One of the reasons I love to teach is because I love to learn. During my ed tech class last week, one of my students introduced me to Alice, the programming language, and also talked about Storytelling Alice, the programming language geared towards middle schoolers, particularly girls. I had ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/01/26/a-different-kind-of-tea-party/ I am teaching three courses this semester. Two are face to face and one is online. I've taught the undergraduate face to face course for more than five years. It's the typical "tech" class that pre-service teachers have always had to take. When I took it ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/01/22/teaching-teaching-teaching/ Mark Your Calendars: The VSTE Webinar for January will be held Thursday, January 28, at 7:30 PM. We'll be taking advantage of Learn Central's free Elluminate access. Mary Ellen Davis and Linda Carpenter from Virginia Beach will be reprising their excellent VSTE presentation about this online virtual problem solving tool ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/01/18/vste-webinar-quest-atlantis/ Earlier today on Twitter, Alfie Kohn asked which signs directed at students were bothersome. Tim Stahmer followed up by commenting that he was bothered by signs that told kids to put away their mobile devices as though they had no instructional value. The exchange reminded me of a ... http://ivyrun.com/wordpress/2010/01/15/a-bit-of-irony/