Why is digital writing so complex and challenging both for teachers and students? We know that writing does matter, no matter if it is digital or written with a pen or pencil. The process is of writing still the same and has not changed. What has changed with the digital age is the fact we [...]
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Why is digital writing so complex and challenging both for teachers and students?
November 23, 2011 · 4 Comments · digital writing, digital writing workshop, New Writing Pedagogy, writing
Tags: challenges·digital writing·Kevin Hodgson·student·teacher
What Great Teachers Do Differently
November 18, 2011 · 1 Comment · video
Every teacher has an impact. Great teachers make a positive difference. Todd Whitaker describes the beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that form the fabric of life in our best classrooms and schools. He focuses on the specific things that great teachers do … that others do not.
Tags: great teachers·teacher·video
Mind Shift
November 4, 2011 · 5 Comments · 21st Century, learning, reflecting, Teaching
There has to be a mind shift from the familiar traditional learning environment. In a traditional learning environment the classroom is teacher centered and the teacher is upstage and the teacher has all the control over learning. 21st century thinking the thinking is reversed. The classroom is learner centered and what happens in the [...]
Tags: 21st century thinking·guaranteed viable curriculum·learning·mind shift·teacher·Teaching·traditional learning
Why aren’t these questions being asked in our school buildings?
December 20, 2009 · No Comments · 21st Century, change
Today my Google Reader is overflowing. Finding the time has been difficult this week with a full workweek, community events, Christmas parties, shopping, dance recital, a quiet overnight trip to Charleston, SC with just my wife- no children. I found some time yesterday and I got stuck reading David Warlick’s post titled Why Are We [...]
