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
First Week of Flip Class
(This blog post was originally written for www.stuartkellynz.com he’s a cool guy, you should go visit him some time) I’ve been flipping my classroom for a
The Long Apprenticeship Just Got Longer
As teachers, we serve incredibly long apprenticeships. We enter school as 6 year old children and watch and learn from our grade 1 teacher. We
Please Ditch the SlideShow – It’s PowerPointless
An interesting paradox has slowly been presenting itself. When I talk to teachers, I sometimes ask them about whether they use PowerPoint, Prezi, Google Slides
Juggling Hammers – How to Use Tech Tools
If you gave a man a hammer with no further instructions, would he figure out its primary purpose was hitting things? Hammers are for hammering
Listen, Every Teacher is a Snowflake
For just 6 weeks now I’ve been in the role of technology coach at my school. It has been an exciting time. Teachers have embraced