Sunday, September 28, 2014

Game based Mechanics at School

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Last week I went with my kids to their school's "fun night". The fun centers around a fair like set of activities that gener...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Cognitive Flexibility, and Devices in 1:1 Environments

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This week I visited a new 1:1 integration at a local school site with some of my colleagues. The site chose a "convertible" lapt...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

Coaching Tech Integration in Elementary Schools- Second Year

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Dr. Laurie Friedrich (newly minted) and I are back to Rousseau elementary coaching teachers in technology integration. This is one of the ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Four things your students can learn from watching Minecraft videos

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My two youngest kids have been playing minecraft for quite a long time. For those who are not familiar with minecraft think of a game plat...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Motivation to Innovate- or five reasons to risk failure

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The lens I most often use to view motivation is Bandura 's concept of self efficacy . The idea is that we are more likely to succeed w...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Telling Stories

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This week we held our annual iPads in the Classroom workshop. Laurie and I used last year's work as a foundation but added many new co...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

iPads in China- Excerpts from the Chinese media (loosely translated)

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Working in China exposes the cultural differences AND the similarities of concerns. Despite all the concerns and challenges our project jus...