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How Would You Like It To Be? – A School Wide Project-Based Learning Film Festival Jeff Utecht
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Episode 220: Master Asker of Questions Jeff Utecht
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Episode 219: The Values Map Jeff Utecht
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Episode 218: 3 Podcasting Tips for Teachers and Students Jeff Utecht
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Episode 217: More than a Logo Jeff Utecht
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Episode 216: Should Cell Phones be Allowed in Class? Jeff Utecht
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Episode 215: Your Network Starts with You Jeff Utecht
This week Chris Butler and I chat with Adam Polluck an IB International Teacher working in Hangzhou, China at a school that focuses on a Project-Based Learning approach. Adam walks us through how he and his colleagues structure 32-week in-depth PBL experiences for students. Links: Adam Polluck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-pollock-3b5b006/ Enter to […]
This week Chris Butler and I chat and have a first look at the newly released Common Sense Media Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens. Link: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens-2019
A reflection on trainings I have been giving recently and the use of student monitoring software in a 1:1 classroom. Let’s use the software to start conversations, not as a punishment for opening a tab…..BTW….that doesn’t change behavior.
This week while working at the International School of Luxembourg (ISL) I sit down with my good friend Ashley Sawyer and we talk about her 3rd-grade classroom and some of the units she has done with her students that use technology in authentic ways. We also discuss the new portfolio […]
Thanks to Katy McKee a technology coach in the Royal School District for sending this article to me that has me thinking and reflecting on the idea of engagement. Worth a read: Link: What is engagement in a learning experience? https://www.goguardian.com/research-and-insights/state-of-engagement-2019/
How do you assess learning when it happens in the process of creating not the product? All too often we assess the product but that is not where the learning occurred. How can we assess learning when it is actually happening…in the process of creating. I invite you to leave […]
Here you go! My top Chrome Extensions for Students to start the new school year. My goal is for you to hear my 5 and then share your favorite chrome extensions that you like to use with students either at #sospodcast or at our Flipgrid at flipgrid.com/sospodcast. Links: Flipgrid: flipgrid.com/sospodcast […]
As we continue on our August theme of 1:1 Summer of Fun I break down two of the major mind-shifts I believe need to happen before we worry about the actual technology in the classroom. Understand that we are redefining what it means to be “Knowledgable” and how we must […]
To kick off August and a month of 1:1 Summer of Fun we start with my reading of the peer-reviewed article I wrote along with Doreen Keller that was published in May 2019. We start with the Connectivism Learning Theory, a theory that talks about the connected ways in which […]
