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This blog post is an assignment for the American College of Education, Doctoral Instructional Technology program. Background: The blog was established in 2010. This blog is currently oriented toward practicing K-16 educators interested in educational technology. Sample Computer Lab Refurbish #EdTech… Continue Reading →
Since March 2020 educators have worried about students falling behind. It has pushed teachers to work past reason, parents to stress about doing the teacher’s job, and left students outside of the traditional classroom. However, a pandemic is a worldwide… Continue Reading →
The structure of learning environments is within the control of the adults crafting the classroom experience. Recently classroom environments have been online and face-to-face; both modalities can enjoy the same structure to include more students and more points of view…. Continue Reading →
The video conferencing solution does not matter – Zoom, Skype, Google Hangout, Big Blue Button – but the effect is the same. The overuse of live lesson platforms, frustrated teachers, and underwhelmed families are all Zoomed Out. Free eBook: Zoomed… Continue Reading →
Armies of traditional face to face teachers just taught their first full semester of courses online. And for those who thought they were imposters, they just proved themselves wrong. Teachers who thought they were imposters just proved themselves wrong. #edchat… Continue Reading →
At the end of the fall semester of 2020, teachers with x-ray vision did the best in this new format. You may have only just discovered this superpower in some of your teachers, so it is worth a discussion. Teachers… Continue Reading →
I stopped using the phrase “unprecedented times” as soon as I could this semester. Because no one wants to hear what they feel in their bones, how novel this situation is, how exhausting, how sustained, and how stressful the unprecedented… Continue Reading →
Before a parent or an educator becomes too emotional in response to pandemic grading, let us consider the situation… Craft an Intentional Perspective “Unconditional positive regard” means an approach that slows us down and considers student /teacher motivation and overall… Continue Reading →
No doubt, opinions about remote learning are innumerable. Public schooling brings together very diverse families, all with differing priorities. When something as necessary as public education substantially changes, life changes. Children stayed out of school and stayed home. Home could… Continue Reading →
As the new school year approaches, educators need to look back to the spring to learn how to improve what we can offer this fall. #RemoteLearning Roundup // Time to look back to look forward #BlendedLearning #BLinAction #BLchat #blendchat #edtech… Continue Reading →
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