These past few weeks have been a marathon. With reading week, ordering, progress reports, goal setting meetings, basketball tournaments and CoETaIL projects, I’m being pushed to the limit. I forget to remind myself, though, how gratifying it is to make progress towards a goal, to watch my girls play some awesome basketball, and to complete…
I coach the elementary girls basketball team at our school. For a few weeks, we shared a gym with the boys team. We shared the basketballs, pennies, court space. When we finally did have a full court scrimmage, it was so fun to watch the girls adapt. They weren’t used to having an open space…
I just find the dialogue about this original video so interesting. It mimics some discussions ricocheting around our school right now. Someone will send out an email about some great iPad apps for helping struggling readers, then someone else will send a scathing email about how kids need real books. Is it an either-or choice?…
I have been a Prezi geek lately, so when we were asked to make a visual of our personal learning network, I went to work with a Prezi template. I learn so SO much from following #edchat and #edtech on Twitter. Up until I enrolled in CoETaIL, Twitter had been a venue for me to…
I just finished reading this N Y Times article about how the technology in schools is a questionable investment since the scores of the standardized tests the students take do not seem to improve when technology is implemented in the classroom. I then read a rebuttal article explaining how the NYT article was slanted towards the…
Being of a certain age and just having graduated from university, I felt moderately schooled in the different learning theories and how they relate to the students in my classroom. But even in the four years I was studying, educational technology and learning communities changed drastically, so much so, that what was taught in my…
The vision for my own classroom is one where every student has every available tool to help her learn to the best of her ability. In that classroom, every student has a computer or access to one along with access to the wealth of educational tools it provides. Technology would be used as a supplement…
With technology, I’m like the kid that devours the SpongeBob books and doesn’t even touch a book that doesn’t feature an illustration. I have a lovely relationship with my iPad. It provides me access to all of my favorite blogs. I can read the Style section of the NY Times online. It allows me to…
Hello. My name is Rachel. I teach grade 5 at an international school in Vietnam. I’m taking a CoETaIL course because I want to teach with tech. I want to talk to others who teach with tech. I want to use what I know about best practice and blend it with technology in my classroom.…
