One of my goals for this year was to try social networking in the classroom. I really enjoyed exploring and connecting on all of the various educational social networks last semester, so I wanted to bring that kind of experience into the classroom setting this year. For me, the power of social networking, especially in…
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Over the past few months Justin, Dennis, Annelies, Struan, Teresa (our elementary curriculum coordinator extraordinaire) and I have been working diligently to develop our essential understandings and essential questions about 21st century literacy in order to develop a workable framework for authentically embedding technology into our core curricular units of study. It’s been a long…
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A few weeks ago, I gathered a small group of especially bright fifth grade students to act as a Sounding Board for the Flat Classroom Project. I did the same thing last year with my eighth grade IT class and was really impressed with what they learned. In all honesty, I was a little nervous…
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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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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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