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In these months leading up to our delivering our final projects to our COETAIL colleagues and the world, I have been vacillating between several different mindsets and worlds, all of which bear writing about. Of course, life has dictated that I write about none of them. Here I begin to try. Maybe talking about...
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That is the announcement that all Kindergarteners should be hearing as they get up from the rug and approach their computing machine for the very first time. As soon as they start clicking keys and swiping screens they will be building a portfolio, intentionally or otherwise, that will define them in their future. As I explored how we...
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For our final project I partnered up with Andre De Koker and Sarah Leonardis. We work in three different areas of the world, and our schools have different needs and challenges. As a result, our intention is to use one another as sounding boards for our process as well as our ideas. This Google...
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I have been talking to colleagues and thinking and reading about digital citizenship lately, starting with asking people for their definitions and then getting into more specific understandings. The digital part of the term digital citizenship refers to a community in which the children that we teach are living a large and important part of their lives....
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It’s a tough nut, the one about teaching students not to infringe copyrights, not to download music and movies, etc etc. I have been reading lots of posts about it, and there are many ideas. The most difficult thing is the many of us do those things ourselves, and so it is an empty...
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It seems like the copyright issue, especially as explained by Kirby Ferguson in his Everything is a Remix (Part Four) video, is another example of how a brilliant idea, designed to ensure the vitality and creativity of a society, has mutated into a different, far less inclusive and enlightened idea. I think that Ferguson...
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Privacy is about what we want the world to know about us, or what we want the world to be able to see about us and our life. I have read some great COETAIL posts about whether online privacy actually exists at all, and posts about the degree of control that we are able...
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Much of “technology time” in schools is spent in preparing students to become digitally literate, in one manner or another. All schools are somewhere along the continuum of edtech enlightenment, and the range of what is out there is amazing. Some are teaching how to open and save Word documents, others are showing their students...
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I have been working with my class this year on becoming more reflective learners. This is no small task in lower elementary, and after adjusting my expectations a little, we have been enjoying our small successes together. Reflection is a skill that requires practice, and we worked on it in several forms. Our goal...
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I always read Tech Transformation, the blog by Maggie Hos-McGrane. She writes so concisely and thoughtfully, loves inquiry, and whenever I am done reading her blog, I find myself following the writers and thinkers that she writes about. She is very prolific as well. Yesterday she wrote about 21st Century teachers, beginning by quoting Will...
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