August 2011 Blog Posts (38)

Here are some ideas about paradigm shifts from Living on the Future Edge by Ian Jukes, Ted McCain, and Lee Crockett. Technology advances have reached a point to where the changes we are seeing in society are exponential – they are coming so quickly that they are hard to grasp. To compound the problem, the time between the shifts continues to decrease, which gives us even less time to adjust before another new paradigm is upon us.



So what do we do…

I’ve been reading Living on the Future Edge by Ian Jukes, Ted McCain, and Lee Crockett, and they point out that our schools were built for a world that existed 100 years ago but disappeared with the advent of the Internet. Are we ready for a challenge? Our greatest challenge as educators is to prepare our students to enter a future world that doesn’t exist yet, to train them to solve problems that don’t exist yet, and to train them to solve these problems…

¿Qué papel desempeñamos los docentes?

Desde la perspectiva del siglo XXI, donde los nuevos avances tecnológicos y la globalización del mercado del trabajo; nos incorporan continuamente hacia una sociedad que por insignia porta aventajar el desarrollo económico más que el desarrollo de lo “humano”, es urgente reflexionar:

¿Hacia dónde nos dirigimos como integrantes activos y metamórficos de la enseñanza dentro de esta era de expansión productiva?

Si bien es…

On September 13th, I will officially participate in No Office Day!

David Truss first posted a blog here, describing in words and pictures his experience with a "No Office" Day and challenging the rest of us principals and heads to do the same.  This challenge has been picked up by PEJE, whose guest blogger on August 19th, …

During last Thursday’s ukedchat I engaged in a mild disagreement with Andrew Hall @ConsultantHead on the best way to organise classroom seating.

He defended the proposition that seating students in rows made behaviour management easier and would therefore lead to better teaching & learning. I begged to…

Lead Faculty Developer at the CTL, Alli Woods, recently interviewed Sonny Randall who will be one of many featured speakers at KU Village 2011. Register now!  http://www.kuvillage.org/

To learn adding fractions with different denominators , kids can go to http://www.fractionsworksheets.ca There are many links to the pages containing lessons and worksheets on adding fractions with different denominators.

The key is to know the greatest common factor of two or…

Back to school time is there, kids are almost ready to start the new school year. We have a little source for 2nd grade math, site http://www.grade2mathworksheets.com have some lessons and worksheets on basic math topics.

Site includes lessons and worksheets on counting numbers larger than one hundred, writing numbers in…

This is simply a copy of my Blog entry inSwords Edgucation and Tech.

       Each time I reach geometry standards in the math curriculum, I find myself trying to make geometry problems more meaningful and interesting. With Google Sketch-up, meaningful instruction has a new solution, providing relevance and more…

This is the listing of all of the videos from #140EDU Conference. Please feel free to share these videos with your friends and colleagues:

Chris Lehmann - http://blip.tv/140confevents/140edu-8-2-11-welcome-5465616

Jeff Pulver - …

[This article was originally published on the Innovations Lab Blog.]

I recently traveled to Long Island, New York and met with one of my “tweeps,” KU Village 2011 Keynote speaker Tom Whitby.  As you can see in the video, Tom is easy to talk to, passionate about online education and social media, and an all around nice guy. View the interview here: …

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