In the beginning of my career I had some pretty rough classroom observations. I can talk about them because I’ve since moved on and nobody
Author: Joel Speranza
Nobody Likes Change. Everybody Loves Improvement
“Yes, but what do you do with the resisters? You know, the people who hate change?” Here’s the secret. EVERYONE HATES CHANGE! Story Time I
10 Ways To Use Video in Your School
Why use video? They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”. So, at 24 frames a second, a 2 minute video is worth 2,880,000
Find Your Flipped Learning Workflow
“Flipped Learning is NOT about making videos…” I hear this so often when flipped learning gets discussed. I myself even gave a talk at Flipcon last
My Class of Guinea Pigs
Question: Is it unethical to perform experiments on students? Not the kind that would turn them into a comic book superhero or supervillain. Slightly less harmful
Why Learning to Code Doesn’t Suck Anymore
Coding has always been notoriously difficult to learn and to understand. For the longest time, coding looked something like this. Now that’s just some gibberish
How To Build a Lightboard On a Budget
Just to pre-empt the inevitable question; No, I am not writing backwards. That’s always the first question but I also get a lot of others
Learning is Not a Spectator Sport
In this week’s blog: Podcasts, Learning as sporting event, Ex-Student Olympians, How I disappointed my Pre-Service teacher and why I’m teaching less and less. This week I’ve
Why do classrooms have fronts?
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates “The unexamined classroom is not worth teaching in.” – Me, I guess. Why do classrooms have
How Coffee Improved My Teaching
How a weekly coffee made me a better, more reflective, more fearless educator. Alternatively, what teachers can learn from cliff-divers What if I told you that
The In-Flip: No Homework, No Problem
Last week I blogged about the ever-present flipped learning question What if they don’t watch the video? Of course, that post was predicated on the assumption
Flipped Learning: What if they don’t watch the video?
So you want to flip your classroom but there’s one nagging question holding you back. This is the number one question I get about flipped
