Observing a 9th grade history class yesterday, I witnessed two interactions that blew my mind.
1. During lunch, several students used discarded lunch trays, staples, pens, and tape to craft foam Sidekicks and ENVs with sliding, flipping, and popping ’screens’. They then wrote notes on paper, folded them up, placed them inside of the closed phones, […]
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Two more reasons I love 9th graders
January 11th, 2008 design, education, email, highschool, kids, literacy, media, mobile, teaching, technology, teenagers, todomundo | No Comments »imeem, SNOCAP, and the :30 time limit
May 28th, 2007 copyright, filesharing, imeem, lawsuits, snocap, teaching, todomundo | 1 Comment »I often use imeem in my classroom for archiving student work and sharing audio with students. For example, see the playlist below that accompanied our recent Searching for the Perfect Beat project.
In that playlist, you may notice that NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” is but a thirty second snippet. This was not the case […]
Will Richardson reacts to the possibility that NYC public school students will have to pay 50 cents to put their cell phones into a locker at the start of school each day. He writes,
Um, yeah. That’ll work. Not only take away the tools with which most teens communicate and learn, but charge them for […]
Fighting the fading history of Haiti’s revolution with a wiki solution
December 14th, 2006 teaching | No Comments »The Louverture Project is a wiki site dedicated to preserving and extending the history of the Haitian Revolution. They intend to cover “the events leading up to the revolution, the rise of Toussaint Louverture as the leader of his country, the revolution’s impact on world history, and much, much more.” This is an […]
The version of Windows XP installed in my computer lab hides file extensions by default. This is endlessly confusing and frustrating for my students. Is this “feature” is helpful to anyone?
Recently the 9th graders have been saving their Photoshop projects for use on the web. They’ve been contrasting the quality and filesizes […]
Gamers might be the ideal students for a constructivist classroom
November 16th, 2006 teaching | No Comments »Perhaps the most interesting piece of Warlick’s presentation was his emphasis on kids as gamers (viz Got Game by John Beck.) Beck’s book is aimed at managers hiring out of the “gaming generation.” Gamers teach themselves through experimentation. They expect goals and competition, take risks, and welcome social situations. Beck/Warlick warns […]
David Warlick’s keynote was a crash-course in the last 5 years of thinking around the participatory Internet culture. You can see Warlick’s handouts and notes online. He has organized his materials brilliantly to connect with an audience that may not be plugged into the blogo-wiki-2.0-sphere.
“Raise your hand if you’ve used a […]
In Pre-Calculus today, we created piecemeal functions in which the dollar value of a month’s cellphone bill is dependent on the number of minutes one uses during that month. As we broke apart two different T-Mobile pricing plans, discussion of the functions’ domains lead to a fascinating tangent.
Initially, students were not drawing arrowheads onto […]
