Of late, folks in my corner of the educational world have been jazzed about the intersections of maker culture and education. I'm super excited too - and even pleasantly surprised. A couple of year...
Over coffee with an ex-colleague who works in IT, we chat about technology in schools. He mentions reading some of my blog posts and I’m suddenly aware that I rarely write about technology an...
This animation was made by Grade 8 students. The story starts with two ordinary people in their daily lives, when one day, one clumsy action leads them through…
A professional or student in the 21st century needs to have a good degree of multimedia literacy. The term multimedia literacy and visual literacy encompass many things and borrow from many disciplines.
I invite my middle schoolers to bring their headphones to class. It’s not just because the year is 2012, or because stringy white ear buds are as ubiquitous as skinny jeans that sag beneath b...