Posted in Teaching and Learning, robotics on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
The 5th grade teacher put together this video of the robotics project we did last spring in her class. She showed it to the SSUSD school board and from what I hear, they loved it. If anyone ever gives me a hard time about paperwork again, I’m going to pull this out and let them [...]
Posted in Teaching and Learning on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
“When I went to college, I was allowed to have much more say in what I was learning. For instance, I loved social science, and I could take a social science class, whereas in high school, we were so focused on math skills, science skills, language arts skills, the sorts of things I wasn’t very [...]
Posted in Computers, Teaching and Learning on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Great question!
I guess a better question than “Why don’t kids use email?” is “How should we be teaching our kids to communicate electronically?” Maybe email really is going to be dead in 5 years. Just because I can’t imagine life without Gmail doesn’t mean my students can’t. If that’s the case though, what skills do [...]
