We are preparing our students for life. I hear so many educators use this sentence when asked, what is the purpose of education? Many years ago I believed that to be true as well. Maybe many generation s back it may have been true. In consideration of all that I observe, even with some great innovation,  and a whole bunch of technology integration that is taking place in so many schools across the country, I don’t believe “preparing our students for life” is the focus or goal of education…

Caffeinated Teaching - My blog post on using GarageBand in my first grade classroom....

Our Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning's recent publication, "Think Differently and Deeply," provides snapshots into how educators apply research in how the mind learns to their classroom practices. Check it out at 

Devices will not save us – IP validating and web video cams.  Here is what we must do:

Embrace the 21^st century in which student assignments are project based collaborative pieces and testing assessment is the open e-resource exam (akin to the open book exam).

1. Collaboration eliminates copying  as students hold each other accountable for parts of the assignment or for equal input into an assignment.  Google docs for collaborative composition and Prezi for…

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With this app, users design their own experiments: materials, condition, ... 

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This is a great function for people visually impaired.  When enabled, the device will read aloud the highlighted text in iBook, on the web, or in a book app, etc.

For a step by step instruction on how to turn this function on, please visit…