Google Docs’ Version History feature can empower students to engage in rich conversation about their writing [Read time: 2 minutes]
Transforming Education
Multiple-Misconceptions
Assessments, just like anything else that happens in our classrooms, are learning experiences. But the way we administer them may cause students to learn false information. [Read time: 2 min]
What’s Your (Instructional) Problem?
The key to meaningful technology integration in our classrooms [Read time: 1 min, 36 sec]
Students Seeking and Evaluating Feedback
What happens before and after a Moodle Workshop is just as valuable as what happens during.
Reminder: Free May Not Always Be Free
We need to invest our time and energy, and that of our students in what is sustainable: in the tools that we can build over time and that will not be swept out from under our feet too easily. But we also need to help students develop habits that can withstand change in online tools, to establish ways of doing things that acknowledge that tomorrow could be entirely different, and to be able to do things in a variety of ways.
The Devil is Not in the Technology
Technology is not inherently harmful. But it does have a way of amplifying our character traits. Think about how many emails you’ve sent that you wish you hadn’t. It’s also not inherently beneficial, either. One battle we have fought in education and continue to fight is the battle of “we’re using technology, so everything must be all good.” This is far from the truth. The goal with educational technology should not simply be to use more technology.