Chris Lehmann (Principal of the Science Leadership Academy – small public school in PA and it’s a 1:1 school) presents Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools.
Premise: Pedagogy Matters! Schools should be…
Caring Place – we teach kids not subjects
Inquiry Driven – what are the questions we can ask together?
Student Centered – it’s not about us
Passionate – [...]
Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis discuss Flat Classrooms
Jousting for the New Generation by David Loader is an excellent read over the summer. “Knowledge sharing among students can be a major source of content and pedagogy.”
You know you have a flat classroom when…
You expect to have daily conversations, ongoing, regular interactions with students and classes around [...]
PowerPoints Again??
I suppose we go into each of these sessions with our own point of view. We read a description of a workshop or session, perhaps do a little research on the presenter and then go in hoping to get our needs met. This time I head to David Jakes and Dean Shareski’s One [...]
Leading up to NECC, all I heard about was Edubloggercon, Edubloggercon… people were excited about it, but everytime I went online to investigate, it just seemed huge to me. I felt like Edubloggercon was going to be about the philosophy of technology rather than talk about tools. For this reason, I decided to give [...]