There are amazing things that our students are capable of when they are challenged. I’m not talking about core coursework either, I’m talking about things that are not on an end of instruction exam. Things that change lives – forever. In my area of the world high schools have recently completed …
This week we read about cognitive load and ended with a short article on diffusion of information. A very simple definition of cognitive load is the working memory that is required when performing different tasks. For example, as I write this blog post I am typing with my fingers on …
My daughter gets it. This is her “If I were President Project” *made spelling edits and sought clarification on one tough part. The words are hers. If I were president I would help the foster children and the homeless. I would help make schools better. I would help people in …
I'm all for the 12 of us, arms locked, screaming into the void of ignorance and malice, but… are we getting anywhere? Even a little? — BlueCerealEducation (@BlueCerealEduc) March 8, 2016 Here’s the thing – by sitting idly by and watching the world move past we are accepting what is …
With the technology available at our time in history, using video for learning has never been easier. If you are a follower of this blog, then you know that I flipped my high school math classroom. Creating video content for students to view at home, so they could work on …
One of the really cool things happening right now in my Advanced Computer Instructional Development class, is that all of us have the opportunity to read about the research interests of everyone else. One of the topics that we just recently spend time discussing was financial literacy, and the article …
This blog post was originally shared on the Cimarron Middle School Blog. This blog is great because it is written by teachers for teachers and originates from Cimarron Middle School in Edmond, Oklahoma. What a great idea for including staff in the leadership of a building! Thank you so much …
Altruism On my way to school this morning I was listening to Stitcher – a podcast app – when the latest version of Freakonomics played. It was such a powerful episode and brought tears to my eyes several times. Why? Let me sum up: a man living in New England …
One of my classes this spring has been organized to be student centered – the students organized the syllabus and chose the readings. And from my view this was hard…Why? Because for my entire journey through education, including when I was teaching in the high school classroom, the teacher made …
One my classes this spring is focusing on student centered learning, with a strong dose of computer based instruction. One of the cool things from this class is that we are sharing research interests with each other and getting to read what each of my classmates is interested in. My reading …