I can’t think of a different way to put it. For some reason I hate the phrases ‘learning with technology, learning with tech, technology based learning, even learning in a techy world’ and any other statement that puts an emphasis on the technology, as if it is something different from the tools of learning to…
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Thanks for your help: learning more about tech (digital storytelling) in secondary classrooms
Posted on Author Tracy RosenPosted in Classroom, Pedagogy, Professional Development, Teaching, Tech2 Replies
I’ve received quite a bit of response from my plea for help in organizing a workshop I’ve been asked to give on integrating technology into secondary classrooms (2 workshops, one in English one in French) – Thank you :) I’ll be using Teaching is a Verb – Enseigner, C’est Agir to share information with the…
Stop talking about classrooms that don’t work
This morning I read a thoughtful post about what ADD may or may not be. Despite the timeliness and depth of thought present in the article, I was stricken by one paragraph about the perils of classrooms on our children. How our young children today, so rife with creative potential, are doomed to a future…
How to get them to speak the language they are learning?
(cross-posted at Enseigner, c’est agir – en français) How do you get your students to speak French (or whatever the 2nd language is that they are learning) in class? I am not interested in offering rewards. I don’t want to raise a group of trained seals who will do anything for a candy. click image…
Being human and classroom management
We are just about coming to the end of the classroom management section of my summer course (Teaching French as a 2nd Language). The more I learn about classroom management the more I realize that most of it is about being human and doing the right thing. Strategies that arose in relation to managing a…