Have the skills teachers need for success changed or evolved over time, particularly as we dig in to the 21st century? Certainly, many are the same, but perhaps some are unique to our current tech savvy age. Andrew Churches, a head of the tech department at his school in New Zealand, offers eight essential skills [...]
As mentioned in several previous posts, I began including classroom blogs as part of my high school English curriculum this year. (I know, I should’ve been doing a long time ago!) The Tidertechie blog outlines more great reasons to include them as part of any class curriculum and includes suggestions on how to set things [...]
There continues to be resistance among some in education who see learning social networking skills and online publishing as somehow outside of the framework of the set curriculum. I could not disagree more. I have seen my learners’ writing skills improve astronomically via use of our classroom blogs, and recognize that so much of social [...]
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