iTeach and iLearn

Imagine this scene, teachers: You have a colleague down the hall who has been telling you all about this great new educational technolog...

I believe that storytelling is central to our humanity. We tell stories all the time, from personal histories, to imaginative bedtime storie...

The internet has changed almost everything about almost everything. A bold claim? Perhaps. But think about the mission statements of some ...

For a reading for one of the classes I'm taking this semester, we read part of Seymour Papert 's classic book Mindstorms: Children, ...

I saw this tweet from History In Pictures yesterday, and it made me laugh: "All this technology is making us antisocial." pic....

Hey, it's Digital Citizenship Week! (Yeah, I didn't know that either, but Twitter told me. I checked...it is!) As an EdTech fanati...

I've written before about how I think teachers are among the worst culprits at breaking copyright, and that we aren't doing our job ...

Think with me for a moment about footprints. Footprints in the sand wash away when the tide comes in. We sometimes place handprints or foo...

It kind of drives me crazy when educators try to argue that they don't need to be tech savvy. Yes, it takes work to keep up with rapidly...

I came across this graphic today--might be a good one for the elementary teachers especially? (If you can get beyond the cutesiness, I think...

A couple weeks ago I was doing an EdTech workshop with some 4th grade teachers and the topic of teaching kids to cite sources came up. How s...

The topic of helping students develop good citizenship (especially online) came up in one of the discussions in a class I'm taking. I...

So you want to have your elementary or middle school students create short, narrated animations on their iPads? I just came across a nifty a...

I've been thinking quite a lot this spring about how to teach students (and teachers!) copyright law as it applies to school. I'm co...

I'm always on the lookout for great ways for students to share their work--and especially with authentic audiences. Zeen looks like one...

I'm occasionally part of a twitterchat on Saturday mornings (#rechat -- "Rethinking and re-imagining education" --  @johntspen...