Eight years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this
qimono / Pixabay Schools are obviously going to have lots of challenges during the next school year (see A teacher predicts what his classroom (and others) will look like in the fall) . An additional issue is going to be getting substitute teachers. One challenge is going to be that – if we are teaching in a physical school – there will be far more teacher absences than there have been in the pas
Free-Photos / Pixabay Based on a survey done in Ed Week , the journal suggests that student engagement in distance learning is “plummeting.” My classes seem to holding fairly steady (especially in my live daily ELL Newcomers class), though a few in my IB Theory of Knowledge class who have been on the periphery from the start have pretty much disconnected. In an effort to “hold on” to what I have,
Tumisu / Pixabay We Might Have Gotten Remote Learning Wrong. We Can Still Fix This School Year is the headline of a new op-ed piece I’ve written for Education Week. It’s an expanded version of my previous post, ARE WE GOING ABOUT THIS WHOLE “DISTANCE LEARNING” THING ALL WRONG?
This is just the latest press attention to a huge issue they most of us teachers already know about… Imagine the stress and pressure going on in so many of our students’ homes right now. I’m adding this info to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher (& Outside Factors) Have On Student Achievement .
BedexpStock / Pixabay Ma Xi Lee, our district’s extraordinary Director of Social Emotional Learning, invited me to participate in this podcast . Here’s how she describes it: This week’s episode features important voices in our Sac City community- those of teachers. Teachers are critically important for students’ academic growth as well as their social and emotional well-being. Particularly during
Teach Current Events as ‘History in the Making’ is the headline of a new excerpt from The Social Studies Teacher’s Toolbox . It was published at Middleweb, and is authored by Elisabeth Johnson and Evelyn Ramos. The Social Studies Teacher’s Toolbox is one of three books Katie Hull and I hav
