This is the second part of Alan’s discussion with Eric Marcos, BLC presenter and middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. In this episode, Eric, his students and Alan focus on the student created tutorials’ impact on how students are learning and how Eric can evaluate problems individual students might be having. Eric also describes [...]
In this episode Alan speaks to Eric Marcos, BLC presenter and middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. Eric explains how one individual screencast tutorial made to help a student with homework blossomed into a robust tutorial site called MathTrain. Through this site, students have been empowered to create math tutorials for students in their [...]
In this six part series Alan and Richard Halkett, Director of Strategy and Research in Global Education for Cisco, explore the issues facing today’s educators. Topics include: Do public schools have time to change or is it too late? A researched based look at 21st century skills Schools who have begun the change process Informal [...]
Rahaf Harfoush talks about inherited culture and getting policy-makers to reflect on the way they make decisions.
Highlights from Angela Maiers’ great session on authentic writing on Friday. Angela brought in 12-year old Zoe for her perspective on schooling:
I posed this question on twitter: Writing a blog post/summary of #blc10 Help me. What is was/is your greatest learning moment of the conference? I’ll add your tweet. Go… Here’s what I got: A small sampling of responses but take some time to see if those ideas resonate with you. On a side note, notice the [...]
Would you want to? If you could stay exactly who you are in the physical world, but reinvent your digital identity, would you? As I was sitting is Michael Wesch’s phenomenal keynote yesterday morning, I started thinking some more about my digital identity and jotted down some questions. What would I do if I could go [...]
Amazing ideas have surfaced and been fortified here at BLC10. This event has become an intensive summer professional development camp for me. Many of us will share our percolating thoughts when the dust has settled and we are all comfortably home. The subtle shifts in my awareness of essential ‘big ideas’ regarding my teaching and [...]
On this last morning of BLC10, Alan has posed an interesting question, and we would love your feedback. When you arrived at BLC, you arrived with a particular mindset. We are interested in hearing about what views, understandings and/or beliefs of yours have changed after attending this year’s conference.
Yesterday at BLC I presented on how to manage information overload. Together we looked at the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for this all too prevalent problem. Here is a list of 10 things you can do to keep your Online life under control. 1. Have compassion for yourself – We are all works in progress, [...]
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