Here in east Asia, the big regional conference for teachers is the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference. It’s usually sometime mid-March and all of the schools from this part of the world are invited to attend. ISB is a longtime supporter of the conference and the school actually pays for the flight to the conference, along with…
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This past Monday evening, at 7pm Bangkok time, the ISB Learning Hub team (including our fabulous admin team: Annelies, Struan, and our superstar tech coordinators: Justin and Dennis) got “geeked” as we watched the pre-conference keynote of 2007 K12Online Conference here in our fabulous Learning Hub: We started by watching the 2006 keynote presentation by…
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Last week our elementary admin team along with our curriculum coordinators had an excellent meeting about the direction our school is moving in terms of technology and 21st century literacy. Here at ISB we have amazing resources, all the hardware and software you could ever want, and we’re focusing our professional development on authentically embedding…
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Update: Check out our new wiki: Books Go Global! Please feel free to add your class to our Participating Schools page and collaborate with us! Thanks to Lucy Gray for inspiring our wiki layout with her fabulous Cities of the World wiki (another amazing global collaboration to join!) ———- Today I introduced our two fourth…
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As part of our school-wide focus on reading this year, and our organizational goal of ensuring that we engage our highly able students, two of our grade 5 classrooms are creating a collaborative Ning to allow our “high fliers” to share and communicate with each other – even if they are not in the same…
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