For the summer, I have decided to use my Tuesday and Thursday posts to reblog some of my favorite posts that some of my readers may have missed the first time around: Last year, a friend of mine told me about Google’s 20% Policy, and I immediately thought of its applications for the classroom. It … Read more
In my post that featured a TED talk on Classroom Game Design, I mentioned the interest that I have in trying to use the interest that my students have in gaming to engage them in the classroom. Rather than having them play video games in the classroom, I am considering making the classroom, itself, into … Read more
Teach with Tournaments is a curriculum written by Josh Hoekstra, and was recently featured in a blog entry by William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education. I highly recommend that you read William Bennett’s blog entry, as it gives a very good summary of the idea successfully used by Mr. Hoekstra with his U.S. History students. I … Read more
Pocket Law Firm is an iDevice app that is free. It comes to us from Sandra Day O’Connor’s iCivics program, which has a wonderful website that I have featured on this site. Pocket Law Firm is a game designed to teach about the Constitution. In the game, the user is in charge of a law … Read more
For the summer, I have decided to use my Tuesday and Thursday posts to reblog some of my favorite posts that some of my readers may have missed the first time around. I think that you can find some of the best resources for differentiation at http://www.byrdseed.com. For more of my posts about tools and … Read more