by Bob Harrison | Oct 25, 2017 | Embracing Google, Transforming Education
The Problem It’s not a secret anymore. The answers are out there. Whether it’s a high-level writing prompt or a simple multiple-choice question from the publisher’s question bank, the reality is the same: if it’s been used at all before, the...
by Bob Harrison | May 3, 2017 | Transforming Education
Over the past two years, several teachers in Dearborn have been integrating technology to help their students engage in effective peer- and self-assessment. Utilizing the Moodle Workshop module, students have assessed their own work and that of their peers with...
by Bob Harrison | May 1, 2017 | Transforming Education
“To select, organize, and present, typically using professional or expert knowledge.” That’s Google’s definition of the word curate–a 14th century term that comes from the Latin word curare, which means to care. And who really does? Well,...
by Bob Harrison | Apr 11, 2017 | Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
As I mentioned in Part 1, we can spend a lot of time adding things on to our lessons that make them shine…at least for a while. It’s often just glitter. Here today, gone tomorrow–along with all of the time we spent putting it together and learning...
by Bob Harrison | Feb 27, 2017 | Moodle, Transforming Education
Over the past two weeks, I have been working with a team of outstanding high school social studies teachers, including Mr. Hussein Beydoun, Mr. Marc Golles, Mr. William Harrison, Mr. Pete Kotsogiannis, Mrs. Katie Meyers, Mr. Jamie Nack, Ms. Fatmeh Rida, and Mrs....
