I can remember my teacher education classes from undergraduate with fair accuracy when it comes to questioning and pedagogy. Many professors emphasize questioning techniques that provide scaffolding and helping students up the ladder of Bloom’s taxonomy. In doing so, future teachers are taught how to ask good questions to students and it is accepted as [...]

Perhaps the biggest problem with advancing online education and people’s attitudes towards online education is a result of their prior knowledge. Please understand that online education of the past will be replaced with a form of hybrid learning that integrates the positives of the physical world and the virtual world. That’s why it is imperative that districts [...]

I would consider myself somewhat of a tech enthusiast who works diligently to constantly ground himself about its application in education. At the same time, I would like to see more technology infused into classrooms. Collins and Halverson1 suggest that there are two arguments that technology enthusiasts make as to why new technologies will revolutionize [...]

As the end of the marking period gets closer and closer, teachers begin to hear a plethora of similar questions: Is there anything I can do to bring up my grade? Can I do some make-up work? Do you have any extra credit I can complete? What can “Johnny” do to pass your class? As [...]

Educators are beginning to see the value of social networking with emphasis on sites and platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Nings. This is all for the betterment of our practice, but we must also be mindful that conforming our ideas to those who we have discussions with is not always improving education or an effective [...]

I think video of giving a different perspective of what I am trying to say about “Synthesizing Education”. Much of their discussion has comes across as integrative thinking to combine the positives of the current structure while make predictions for what our kids will encounter in the future. Most importantly, I love the underlying emphasis [...]

Once students leave the classroom, questions should continue to develop regarding class activities, homework, or just sharing of interesting information (like YouTube videos on technology that they know others will enjoy). The natural inclination is always to use e-mail as a primary collaboration tool. As I sit and think about all of the new tools that are available, it is [...]

Let me give you some background before I begin this discussion. I am a building technology coordinator, advocate of Web 2.0 tools, blog author, reader of technology books, Android owner, website developer, technology using teacher (most importantly), and fearful of the ways that technology is seemingly being shoved into classrooms across the country with minimal [...]

There is a general misconception in education that suggests giving students more work means “harder” or “more rigorous” work. The two are not synonymous in the least. There is an astute difference between having students think critically about topics and strongly consider multiple solutions as opposed to having them perform the same functions longer on [...]

I hope that when you saw the title of this post you thought I had gone completely mad. Am I really going to write a 463 part series on homework? No way. My point is that it seems educators perceive the “issue” of homework as a topic that you either believe in it or you [...]