Author: Brad Bohte

I have still been too shy with my posts here on the blog and elsewhere as is obvious to the few people who may have been reading along.  I am finding that posting – the act of putting your ideas out there into the world requires two things, a want for an audience and a […]

Cohort21 teachers today came together at MaRS and discussed their action plans for their classrooms.  I have been a bit stuck on one single action and am only now, after a day of fun and engaging sharing, climbing out of the rut of inaction.  The idea of 21st century learning has been discussed and presented […]

I have come back on our Cohort 21 site and am noticing a rash of activity over the past day or two as our deadline for action plans approaches tonight.  I am glad to see that I may not be the only one who has taken a wee bit of a hiatus from posting.  I […]

So Blended Learning http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-3/ is this idea that students are now learning through not only textbooks and library resources but through digital media systems as well; kind of exactly what Cohort21 is all about.  I found an interesting article from Scientific American that describes a discrepancy between information read from books and information read from […]

Looking through various different sites and resources online I recently came across November Learning at http://novemberlearning.com/blc-education-conference-2014/.  I don’t know much about the educational conferences they run but the organization seems to have been started by a man named Alan November.  How fitting, Mr. November running November Learning being found in November.  It begs the question of […]

Bloomberg Businessweek recently published an article by Devin Leonard entitled ‘The iPad Goes to School’.  http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-24/the-ipad-goes-to-school-the-rise-of-educational-tablets  Technology, it seems, is the only natural next step to educating our future citizens.  The proof seems to be out there; students learn with more access rather than less.  Our children can learn to be responsible citizens both in the […]

As a teacher may, I was taking a look at the curriculum, making sure all the t’s were crossed and the i’s were dotted, and I was reminded of requirements to let our students know about famous Canadians.    I was reminded of a Nobel-winning scientist originally from Germany who moved to Saskatoon many, many […]

    So one day has passed since my first exposure to a bunch of educators who are interested in the future of education and learning more about what they can do to be an active part of it . . . first they talked, then they ate and after that they talked some more. […]

After my first day in Cohort21 and I feel as though I have won a free ride on a roller coaster through a wet mist holding a toaster plugged in to yesterday flying through today if I hold on and make it through I may know more of what to do in a class with […]