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Listening Past the TED Talk

I watched a TEDxBeaconStreet talk the other evening entitled “Reimagining Learning.” It started off well enough, with some good points about the ch... Read more

Maker Experiment #1

Another post in the series for CEP811, we’re really getting serious now as we begin to develop potential plans for our maker kits. Last week, I wro... Read more

A “Radical New Teaching Model” That is Missing the Point

Wired business had an article come out earlier this month about a small school in Mexico that saw huge gains in learning because of some computers ... Read more

I Learned a Lesson from my iPod

I drive a really long way to work twice week. I love what I do every day, which is why I choose to drive. To entertain myself I listen to a lot of ... Read more

Is Khan Academy the Next Generation LMS?

Since 2011, the online resource of thousands of educational videos has been heralded as the “savior of education” and a model for flipped classroom... Read more

TeachLIVE and the Absurdity of “Progress”

I came across something so absurd, and so initially shocking, I almost thought it was a joke. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, w... Read more

Bunching vs Wrapping

I’m thinking a lot about teaching lately. Maybe because it’s because I’ve been out of the classroom for over three months, or because I’m planning ... Read more

#MACUL13 Round Up

I had the chance to attend MACUL’s (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) 2013 conference held in Detroit this past week. I have a l... Read more

Teachers Speak Up Again

Nearly a month ago, I sat down and wrote a letter to my federal representatives in Congress. I received one reply from one of my state Senators. Yo... Read more

Stepping Aside

I’ve wanted to be a teacher ever since I was 15 years old. I remember the English teacher who helped me love having Socratic discussions. I remembe... Read more

Chemical Reaction Cards

I came in today and found out that every computer in the building is being used for testing for the entire week. That kind of threw off my plans. S... Read more

Classroom Landscapes

I love adventure stories. I can’t wait to read the Lord of the Rings series with my kids someday. I’m excited to look at Tolkein’s maps and talk ab... Read more

NASA Shares Awesome Science

Update 9:00 PM – I added a link to the docking procedure run earlier this morning. If you teach science, get on Twitter or Facebook and follow NASA... Read more

Using Video to Liberate Class Time – Cross Post

I originally wrote this for the INDOE 28 Days of Learning blog as part of Digital Learning Month. This is a cross post of that article. I removed t... Read more

Chemical Equation Inquiry

Liza Basden is a chemistry teacher in Illinois that I connected with earlier this year. Periodically, we’ll share resources with one another for la... Read more

Not Paperless? No Problem

If I were to track the number of copies that are made in school each year, I think it would turn into a fantastic conversion problem for my student... Read more

Adaptive Science Curriculum

I’ve been following Dan Meyer for about 15 months. I don’t teach math, but the way he talks about teaching math makes me want to teach it. If you’r... Read more

Watch the MI Flipteaching Conference Free

On Saturday, January 19, over 150 educators from across Michigan and northern Indiana are converging on Byron Center High School to spend the day t... Read more

What Headlines Missed

You may have missed this story out of California last week. A student brought a shotgun to school with the intent of killing some other students wh... Read more

More Faith

I did a webinar yesterday afternoon with Marc Siegel, Deb Wolf, and Ramsey Musallam on the various ways Flipped Learning can be incorporated into a... Read more

Let’s Forget EdTech in 2013

I want to propose something crazy: I think we talk too much about education technology. I’m guilty of it, and it’s been weighing on me over Christm... Read more

Avoiding Burnout

Today, I came to the realization that I’m approaching burnout, and that I need to do something to stay healthy for the break and the second semeste... Read more

Full Immersion

My wife showed me this video the other night. If you haven’t seen it, consider taking thirty seconds to watch it. I’ll wait. At the time, I was ent... Read more

The Point of Learning

I don’t mean the “point” of learning in why we need to learn. I mean the actual cognitive place we must find in order to learn. This year has been ... Read more

Reform the School Day to Reform Schools

Schools and children are dictated by the bell schedule. Classes are 57 minutes, except for math and English, which are 87 minutes, because they’re ... Read more

A Parable

This Halloween, I did a demonstration in chemistry that’s usually called “*`Genie in a Bottle `__*.” This year, I deci... Read more

How NOT to Start a Flipped Class

Every day, I carry a small black journal around to jot down thoughts, changes, and quick reminders to myself. It’s something kids find intriguing f... Read more

Three Questions

I had a really rough start to the week. I really began to notice the “self-pace = no pace” mindset taking hold in some of my students. It was takin... Read more

Essential Tools for Learning

I’ve been thinking a lot about tools and space lately. What digital tools work well in my class? What analog tools are necessary for chemistry? Wha... Read more

The People of Flipped Learning

School is getting started again for just about everyone and as flipped learning becomes more and more popular, we’re all looking to make connection... Read more

Guest Post: Alchemy in the Midst of Chaos: Collaboration and Community in the Flipped Classroom

If you had walked into our rooms the first week of school, you would have seen chaos. Complete and utter chaos. Students lining up to take their pi... Read more

Guest Post: A Brand New Year

This week, I will start my 20th year in the classroom, and for the first time, I really don’t know what I’m going to do. I should probably explain.... Read more

Guest Post: Inquiry-Based History Class

Note: This is a guest post that will be the first in a series. All posts follow the theme of “Changes in class because of summer learning.” Hopeful... Read more

Give It Back

After a horrendous start of the year (I won’t go into it here…) I was finally able to introduce the whole flipped classroom idea to my students tod... Read more

Three Responses to Failure

Things go wrong. It’s a fact that we have to embrace and learn to live with if we want to be great teachers. I’ve learned some of my most valuable ... Read more

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