This is a continuation to yesterday’s post about using Augmented Reality in the classroom. (Don’t forget to watch the AR 101 Show tonight at 9 PM EST tonight!) As some of you know, one of the uses of AR in education is to use it to explain something or share work. For example, this music … Read more
You might think this is a post to remind you about Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is scheduled for September 19th. But that would be a frivolous use of this blog space, right? I mean, what does that have to do with education? So, I am not going to try to convince you to … Read more
Considering the title of my blog, you would think that I might have thought of this. However, “26 Keys to Student Engagement” comes from the wonderful speaker, writer, and motivator, Angela Maiers – and it was written long before I even imagined this blog into being. I took my students to visit our local Toyota … Read more
This is going to be one of those think-out-loud kind of posts. If you’ve been following this blog, then you know that I am a big advocate for Genius Hour, and that I have been playing with the idea of gamifying my classroom. Actually, I made an attempt at both of these last year with … Read more
A few weeks ago, some friends and I were discussing the reasons that gifted kids sometimes end up struggling in their later school years. One of the friends is a parent of a grown gifted son, and the other two of us teach and parent gifted kids. We talked about recent research which seemed to … 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: 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