Saturday, October 25, 2014

Bob Calfee- A Mentor

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Robert Calfee 1933-2014 Bob died last night. Bob was my mentor, the kind that sticks in your head long after you moved out of state. I r...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Five ways that setting the bar too high can be a bad thing

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A district I work with has been focusing on literacy especially reading in the last few years. In multiple ways the district keeps redefin...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Five Ways My Kids are Growing in a Different World

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Some people always call for back to basics. Decoding memorizing facts and old technologies (for example cursive writing). As the day No Ch...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

A Note from the Minecraft Underground- Expertise, Mining and Music

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  by    Andrew Beeston   We had the  TechEDGE 12  conference on campus two weeks ago. Rick Marlatt presented about Minecraft . He was e...
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 ...