Category Archives: Classroom Culture
21st Century Students need 21st Century Teachers
I’m recycling a couple of videos that I have posted in the past, mostly because I believe that they’re worth watching again. These videos – the original higher ed version of “A Vision of Students Today” by Mike Wesch, the … Continue reading
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Using Weebly to build your Classroom Website
Here’s a follow-up to an earlier Weebly post: There have been increasing numbers of educators who find that a classroom website is a good way to stay organized. Here are some basic, very useful functions: Announcements Class Calendar Homework Assignments … Continue reading
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The Beauty of Personal Learning Networks
If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve already begun building your personal learning network. Here is a clever video called The Networked Student about how students are doing it these days, and how this new approach to learning will … Continue reading
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Part 4: Action! Let’s get Web 2.0 into our classrooms!
As a former teacher, I know how hesitant we can all be when trying new things in the classroom. There’s always someone telling you why (shiny new object) is going to “improve” things even when, 9 times out of 10, … Continue reading
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Part 3: Making Education a Social Experience
Here are a few ideas about how to move closer to the goal of smoothly integrating web 2.0 with education: We need to reach a point where students don’t separate “academic” and “social” – the most powerful results will come … Continue reading
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Part 2: Stutzman and Integrating Web 2.0 into Instruction
Here’s a guy who’s trying great things: Fred Stutzman, a teaching fellow at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, is on the cutting edge of realizing the potential for integrating web 2.0 into instruction. He recently taught … Continue reading
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