It was a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, entitled “Handing out iPads to Students isn’t Enough,” and a prompt from @Think_teach that inspired this next post. What is our role as 21st Century educators? Is it our role to teach students the content (knowledge and facts) that they need to move forward in life? […]
After my first Cohort21 meeting, I was instantly drawn to Twitter, but I began to question how Twitter could be an effective tool in the classroom. How could I use Twitter in the classroom to teach students 21st Century skills and encourage literacy (especially in only 140 characters)? While my first post began with Dickens, […]
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them” (Dickens). Long has gone the […]