From the blog
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Growing Up Online
Watch the PBS Frontline Special Growing Up Online: Just How Radically is the Internet Transforming the Experience of Childhood?
Ask any teacher with more than fifteen years of teaching experience about the current generation and he or she will typically respond with a single word - different. Different, because the traditional way of teaching is a striking contrast to the way in which most students interact with technology during their leisure time.
I think my own educational experiences as a child are similar to that of most Americans age thirty and older - absorb facts via lecture, read the textbook, memorize terms and definitions for the test…repeat. Definitive knowledge was canonized in encyclopedias and textbooks and was meant to be mastered for those with enough diligence.
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Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Digital storytelling sounds like the type of project that only the most skilled of technology practitioners dare attempt. The truth is there are several modern ways to tell a “story” in the age-old tradition of sharing oral histories.
The ability to incorporate multimedia tools into the storytelling model greatly enriches the power of the story while creating the opportunity for students to reach a much wider audience beyond the four walls of the classroom. Digital storytelling typically consists of a series of photos or video enhanced by music and narration.
Latest Project
Promethean Activexpressions
Over the least few months, I have had the opportunity to work with several teachers in Greenville County Schools to maximize learning in their classrooms by pairing the theories of formative assessment with the power of a well-designed technology. The Promethean Activexpressions have made a dramatic difference in several classrooms within our district.
I consider using the Activexpressions and formative assessment vital to differentiating instruction and helping every child achieve. Click here to get the recent findings of a research study by Dr. Robert Marzano.
Technology in Title I Schools
Jill Gibbs, Title I Facilitator at Welcome Elementary School, was the author of this in the Greenville News highlighting the impact of technology in our schools.