Teach42

File this under both the "Shameless Plug" category and the "If You’re In the Area Let’s Grab a Beer" category.
Next week I’m going to be in Pittsburgh doing a keynote for the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference.  If you’re in the area, you should swing by!  Peeking in at the agenda, it’s chock full […]

Ok, I don’t mean to suggest that you should throw TV’s out hotel windows or ask your principal to have a bowl of M&M’s (minus the brown ones) waiting for you in the teachers lounge when you arrive at school.
What I mean is that most of you reading this blog know a heck of alot […]

Via Joyce Valenza
Podcasts of many of the sessions at the Building Learning Communities conference have been released! If you couldn’t attend, you should definitely check them out. Heck, even if you did attend, this is your chance to get a second helping.
My personal favorites are Marco Torres’ opening keynote, Andy Hargreaves’ day 2 […]

I got here a little late, but I’m thrilled that Prensky is doing a presentation. If you haven’t heard of him, stop reading and go visit his site.
i’m not sure how he started, but right now he’s giving an overview of the Native/Immigrant theory. Those of us that didn’t grow up with the internet […]

I’ve never seen Joyce Valenza present, but many people have pointed her out to me this trip and said that she was worth seeing.
She lays down some ground rules at the beginning and one of them is that if you’re going to blog about her session, please ‘blog kindly’. So I’ll try to be […]

When he creates projects with his students, they use a system comprised of four P’s: Planning, producing, producing and Pheedback. Each P has a series of steps, and he has podcasts that outline every step of the way, designed by and for TEACHERS.

He introduced the presentation by sharing a video that students […]

Dr. Andy Hargraves is presenting the second keynote, titled Sustainable Learning Communities. Wow, he doesn’t pull any punches. His introduction was essentially a comparrison of the current American educational system versus the direction that the rest of the world is moving in. Every other major country in the world is moving away […]

Before I had to duck out, I caught the first 20 minutes of Jim Wenzloff and Chris Burnett’s presentation, Tales from the Clem. I’ve seen Jim present before and I know Chris well enough, but there’s always something new to learn.
Chris heard Will Richardson speak at BLC04 and after listening to him […]

As I mentioned in the last post, I ran into my usual problem and ran out of battery during the second session of the day. So, I had to resort to paper and pen. Thankfully I don’t work in the ’school of tomorrow’ and still had access to those ancient technologies! So […]

Aaahhh…. This feels good. Sitting in an auditorium, waiting for Marco Torres (the keynote speaker) to begin. Haven’t had the chance to do this for what seems like forever, despite having attended more conferences this year than the rest of my life combined. Ironically, just like always, i’m already stressing about battery […]