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 spin-off , called “A Vision of K-12 Students Today”, and “The Networked Student”, created by [...]

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
Supply Lists
Pictures
Post Student Work
Parent Involvement/Volunteer Opportunities
Classroom Rules and Policies
Links
Your Bio and Contact Info

A website is more informative, while a blog, [...]

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 enhance their 21st century skills.  Highlights include using iPods to listen to college lectures posted on [...]

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, those new things ended up creating more problems than they solved.
Not in the [...]

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 from making education a social experience. If we can get students to really collaborate and engage [...]

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 two semesters of “Online Social Networks”, a grad class where “students spent the semester using online [...]