Category Archives: Modern Skills

New Forms: Hyperlinked, Hashtagged and Lateral Reading

We (yes you too!) need to expand our ability to read differently! There I said it! Are you upset? Skeptical? Worried? Turned off? Irritated? Intrigued? It does not really matter……

Extending Learning- Involving Parents

Involving parents in their children’s learning has been proven to yield higher learning achievements. Our students learn with greater enthusiasm, motivation and the make deeper connections to their lives. As…

Literacy: Language Competence Beyond Our Comfort Zone

Someone monolingual is one who speaks one language. Someone bilingual is fluent in two languages, trilingual is fluent in three languages and someone multilingual is fluent in multiple languages. Speaking…

PACE student learning experience- collaborating on the PACE logo

I am excited to share with you a guest post by Mark Engstrom, head of school at  PACE. PACE is a new school planning on opening its doors in 2015. I…

The 5 Cs in Education: What If… Sketchnoting in the Process

After my sketchnoting workshop at Miami Device, I was asked to record my process of CREATING the sketchnotes. I used Airserver to mirror my iPad display to my laptop Used…