Big Dreams On Gamification
After watching how well my own children respond to playing games, I’ve been tinkering with the idea of gamification in education. My children are diligent students and enjoy learning, especially things they find interesting. They love comic books and video games. They watch countless videos, read blogs/articles, and even...
Read this at your own risk, You may want to change when you’re done
As teachers, we’ve been charged with the task of moving kids to higher level thinking by using questioning strategies that “force” (poor wording choice, I’ll think of something else after I publish this I’m sure) students to think about their thinking. I’ll be real honest here and say we...
We’re All Just A Work In Progress
I had a wonderful opportunity to review the Public Education Vision Institute’s document for Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas. I jotted down some notes and answered a few questions at the end. I wanted to share my thoughts and concerns about each of the statements. I believe...
Challenge Day Five
I found a great little online app today. It allows you to take any image and create any size of a wall poster, for free, for your classroom. (Or really for where ever). I’m picky about posters on my classroom wall. I don’t have a lot and I like...