I have decided to introduce Scatch in my upcoming TechCamp.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As [...]

I am getting ready to teach a one week-three hour summer technology camp next week at my elementary school.
My objective for this camp is to allow the campers (incoming 4th-6th Graders) to have time to PLAY, time to EXPLORE, time to MAKE MISTAKES and time to FIGURE IT OUT, either by themselves or with each [...]

I am reading more comments than blog posts in the last two days due to the Commenting Challenge . Quotes from different voices are are starting to accumulate and laying around like puzzle pieces in my mind.
I want to assemble these puzzle pieces and create a coherent post in the future. It seems overwhelming [...]

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The Comment Challenge is starting today (May 1st) and will run through the next 31 days. Sue Waters , Kim Cofino , and Michele Martin and I have been working to coordinate across geography, timelines and our normal busy lives. There are over 70 [...]

I wanted to share, but also highlight for my own sake, the following PowerPoint that was created by datruss on Slideshare.net.
I like the point this presentation makes. Teachers can continue to:

teach the way educational institutions have taught for the last 100 years
ignore new tools that will bring the world to their students
tell themselves that materials [...]

I am reading more and more in conversations on Twitter , on blog posts and in e-mails that many edubloggers are getting discouraged of writing their blog. They are discouraged for the fact that they are not receiving comments or are feeling brushed off and left out by so called “probloggers”. A few weeks ago, [...]

Yesterday, during our last technology professional development workshop of the year, I introduced a group of our elementary school faculty to the concept of a custom Google Search Engine. Everyone present was invited to be a collaborator and created (if they did not have one) or signed into their google account. I created a step-by-step [...]

Nothing makes me sadder than a student who is turned off by learning. Nothing makes me madder than a capable person who is “wasting” their mind on drugs. And nothing irritates me more than a teacher who makes no effort in continuing to learn.
I understand that everyone has strengths and weaknesses in different areas. One [...]

My Wonderful World Blog mentioned in an article entitled “Are Americans hostile to global knowledge” Susan Jacoby (author of “The Age of American Unreason”) , Noah Oppenheim and Matt Lauer’s interview on the Today’s Show (17th of February 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55KHxhTXbmU

There are a few video clips that are incredibly straight forward examples in showing how globally illiterate [...]

Just the title of my blog is a give away that languages play an important part in my life. Growing up with German and Spanish and then living immersed in English for the past 20 years gives me a different perspective than a monolingual person.
I often wonder if a monolingual person feels “imprisoned” by their [...]