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Digital Learning Every Day: Necessity, Not Luxury

Tomorrow, February 1, is the first national “Digital Learning Day,” an event designed to expand recognition of technology in education and promote innovation. The concept is as sprawling as digital learning itself, but the idea is to set aside one day … Continue reading

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Getting eBooks Into iBooks

As I have written about before, I’m a big proponent of getting eBooks into my scholars’ hands. Previously, I cast my vote for Stanza as my favorite app for reading eBooks on an iPad or other iOS device, but I’ve … Continue reading

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The Socrative Method (for Capturing Student Responses on Any Web Device)

Socrative is a simple web-based student response system that I’ve tinkered with on several occasions, but its streamlined interface sits atop a deceptively powerful piece of software. The flexibility makes it something I’d recommend to any teacher with at least … Continue reading

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Video: A Super-Quick Sprint Through the Features on My Class Moodle Site

My vision for this year includes migrating my class to an all (or mostly) digital environment. Reading, writing, collaborating online. Not because it’s hip or cool or social, but primarily because it’s efficient. Today, I showed off some of those … Continue reading

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Technology is a Literacy (and I’ll be blogging about it on TFANet’s EdTech 101 blog!)

Exciting news! I’m joining the blogging team on Teach For America’s internal social network, TFANet.org. I’ve partnered with Lewis Leiboh, owner of the EdTech 101 blog. Together, we’re going to develop more content to get corps members effective digital tools. … Continue reading

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Demand More Research on Educational Technology!

                    Obviously I’m a proponent of getting more technology into classrooms. But I’m also a believer in data-driven decision making. So I read with great interest Matt Richtel’s NYT article on … Continue reading

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Writing for Your Peers Makes Your Writing Better Than Writing for Your Professors

A fascinating tidbit of research from Cathy N. Davidson’s recent column in The Chronicle: Research indicates that, at every age level, people take their writing more seriously when it will be evaluated by peers than when it is to be judged … Continue reading

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Three Simple App Recommendations for Teachers with iPads

Simplenote simplenoteapp.com | Cost: free This is the what Lifehacker called the “holy grail” of cross-platform plain text syncing. The Simplenote web app does one simple thing: it stores plain text notes in the cloud. But it also has a brilliant API … Continue reading

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Classroom Vision: Language is a Toolkit of Power

So one of the pieces of TFA pre-school work that I find really exciting is the “vision” we’re expected to lay out for the year. This is your classroom manifesto, your big call-to-arms for what you want your students to … Continue reading

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Read, Write, Rock Gets Preliminary Green Light (That Means iPads in Mr. Pratt’s Class!)

I met with my principals today and got spectacular news. They’re going to let me use some of the Gholson cache of iPads for implementing the Read Write Rock project for daily instruction. I owe a lot of folks thanks … Continue reading

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