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Peter Stanley wrote a new post, And still more success …, on the site Taking the Plunge (into tech ed) 1 year, 1 month ago
Video can be a very useful tool for education, but so much of what is available is above the level of my 7th grade students to understand independently, which renders it mostly useless for the flipped […]
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Peter Stanley commented on the post, Digital Creativity and Teaching!, on the site Johnsen's Tech Exploration 1 year, 1 month ago
Interesting thoughts about the role of technology in education! I agree with you and Jason that we need to keep some perspective on technology in the classroom. It is a tool, and like any tool, it needs to be used […]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new post, Video, with Math?, on the site Taking the Plunge (into tech ed) 1 year, 1 month ago
I’ve been having a lot of fun exploring other people’s ideas about using video as part of effective teaching. The internet, and most especially the blog world, is rich with anecdotes that build on my […] -
Peter Stanley wrote a new post, Great Success with Flipped Classroom/Reverse Instruction, on the site Taking the Plunge (into tech ed) 1 year, 2 months ago
Yeah! After much careful coordination, I managed to get all of my students to successfully watch at home a video available on YouTube, the SchoolHouse Rock segment called “Elbow Room.” The video, made in […]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new post, Instruction Reversal, Video with, on the site Taking the Plunge (into tech ed) 1 year, 3 months ago
Can students learn better with reverse instruction?
That is the question.
Now, let’s try and answer it.
I have been inspired by the lessons, articles, and presentations promoting reverse instruction, and […]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Final project: Video in the classroom 1 year, 7 months ago
For my final project, I will examine the ways in which video can enhance learning in our unit on Westward Expansion in U.S. history. I am inspired by the new character education program in our school, which used several brief, 2-minute video scenes as launching points for great discussions about character. [...] -
Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: The joys and trials of a YouTube education 1 year, 7 months ago
YouTube for teachers YouTube has apparently launched a new “channel” just for teachers, according to Mindshift. The special channel is intended to make it easier for teachers to show videos, discuss videos, and to use videos as educational tools. But even better, the blog implies, there may be some sort of kid-friendly protections built into a…[Read more]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Thoughts about Flipping the classroom 1 year, 7 months ago
I still feel like a newbie here, but I’m liking the sound of the flipped classroom (great infographic here that illustrates the concept well), especially now that I’m teaching 45 minute classes. Forty-five minutes goes by so fast, and it seems that all I am able to do so far is present and review the basic [...] -
Peter Stanley commented on the blog post You can’t make me eat my Flipped Classroom! 1 year, 7 months ago
Love the internal debate: flipped vs standard. So simple on the outside, whichever position you take – but nothing is ever that simple. Your engaging lectures – I would love to see one – can be very effective, but so can flipped instruction. Like anything else, I am guessing that we will settle for a [...]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: I hate the cloud … 1 year, 8 months ago
without internet! All week, I’ve been without a convenient internet connection. And I’ve paid the price. All day Monday, I sat on pins and needles, trying to find out if my fantasy team had won or lost their matchup this week (they won!). This is important stuff!
Then I struggled with the 3G connection on my iPhone trying [...] -
Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Working in the Cloud 1 year, 8 months ago
I love the cloud. I love the freedom that online files give me to organize documents, share documents, and to collaborate with my students and peers. But without a doubt, collaboration is the primary reason I value online learning. I love the flexibility that it gives to working with others. Collaboration is such a critical component [...] -
Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Qwiki – Final Project Reflection 2 years, 1 month ago
Take a 7th grade boy growing up in urban Taipei and ask him to imagine the world of camels in the deserts of Pakistan. Kinda tricky. But give him a large library of real photos from the desert, and suddenly, it becomes much easier. Each year, I face this challenge when I teach the [...]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Linear vs Non-Linear Learning 2 years, 1 month ago

We care more about the parts and less about the entire. We are into snippets and smidgens and clips and tweets. We are not only a fragmented society, but a fragment society. Linton Weeks , in the article, “We are Just Not Digging the Whole Anymore”
Like Chris Fox, I, too, am going to be picking a new textbook [...]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Reading with the Kindle 2 years, 1 month ago
Quick. What’s the fastest way to read a new novel, when it’s almost time to complete school orders? Download it on the Kindle, of course! Next year, I’ll be teaching a brand new course on US History, along with my teaching partner. So we’re looking for a good novel to fit in to the curriculum, one that [...] -
Peter Stanley commented on the blog post EARCOS 2011 2 years, 1 month ago
Wow! Great advice. I had a recent conversation with my teaching team about the fact that girls outshine boys in academics, so it’s nice to hear some methods for helping to balance this. I am always looking for ways to get my students up and moving around the classroom, yet it is not my priority, [...]
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Peter Stanley commented on the blog post Tooting for Twitter 2 years, 1 month ago
I agree. Twitter can be quite useful, in many ways, from mundane curiosities to very applicable teaching tricks. I like the idea of building a professional network with focused learning goals. I have subscribed to a number of educators who clue me in to some neat tools and tricks, but now that my teaching course [...]
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Peter Stanley commented on the blog post Selecting a New Textbook 2 years, 2 months ago
You raise a very interesting question – whether print media is somehow quicker or more easily accessible to certain students. For those of us living in the digital transition, I think there are still many advantages to paper. I wonder if there are studies that have weighed this, and whether these studies would show a [...]
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Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Qwiki – Is this our Future? 2 years, 2 months ago
Qwiki is a cool new tool that attempts to make the old-fashioned encyclopedia into a modern, visual creation. Essentially, it uses a computer to read aloud some basic information from Wikipedia about a topic while flashing related images across the screen. Although the current version is rough, I do think that this represents the wave of [...] -
Peter Stanley wrote a new blog post: Google’s Wizard Of Oz Search Algorithm And The Threat Of Facebook Search 2 years, 2 months ago
Here is an interesting tidbit about Facebook, and the potential threat to Google. Facebook has more than half a billion users, and half of those log on every day. These people spend 700 billion minutes on the site and share 30 billion pieces of content. Links are being shared and people are clicking “like” to vote [...]
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Peter Stanley joined the group TAS Cohort 2 years, 5 months ago
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