iTeach and iLearn

It feels like the scramble is on! So many educators are planning and preparing for fall, and now that August is just around the corner, it...

I'm teaching a course this semester ambitiously entitled "Teaching and Learning with Technology." It'a actually the...eigh...

So I saw a tweet yesterday that included the following graphic from my long-time Twitterfriend, Paul Munshower . My first reaction was ...

Oh. My. Word. I just read this article from Education Week: You're More Likely to Pass the Bar Than an Elementary Teacher Licensing Ex...

It's a crazy week for me. I was out of town last week, so I'm playing catch up on marking papers. I've had a bunch of extra ...

I've started writing this post three or four times in the past few days, and I keep walking away from it. I feel like I have to say some...

This one came across my Twitterfeed today (thanks to  @justintarte for sharing!)... Image by Jennifer Gonzalez  @ Cult of Pedagogy. Use...

It's definitely summer-mode for me, and as I said to someone recently, this is the first time in five years that I'm neither taking ...

The other day I received an email from a recent graduate of our Teacher Preparation Program. He was helping out in a school at home, since C...

One of my interests in the realm of education--as noted in the tagline above--is school culture. I think about culture in education quite a ...

Senate confirmation proceedings for Betsy DeVos--the nominee for Secretary of Education--are underway. DeVos is a polarizing figure, it seem...

Tomorrow in my middle school curriculum and instruction class we're going to be talking about lesson plans. Which means...tonight I was ...

This week is a busy one. Last week was too. (Lately, they all seem to be, honestly...) It's advising season as we prepare for registrati...

"Hey, Professor Mulder...is this an opinion  question?" A few semesters ago, I had a student taking a test raise her hand to ca...

I had a less than stellar moment while teaching yesterday. (Oh, what a good reminder that I am still learning even though I am the teacher!)...

We are ready for the maze! (We ambitiously took this picture before getting started.) My daughter and I recently visited the corn maze ...

So. It's time to have a difficult conversation, teacher friends. Here goes... We have to think about what students are doi...

In my Timehop today was a retweet of something shared this time last year by my Twitterfriend David Hochheiser  (who is a wise, funny, gene...

I have been thinking and thinking about homework over the past few months--why teachers give it (many reasons), whether it truly advances le...

Today I had two different friends share this same video on Facebook. It is a video comparing homework assigned in Finland and homework in th...