This summer something magical happened for teachers everywhere! Book Creator came out for Chrome (insert excited shrieks here). What this means for teachers is that if you have Chromebooks in the classroom, you have just hit the creation jackpot. Why do I love...
The words "student voice" have become vogue around educational circles, conferences and tweets - and for good reason. Teachers who have been around a while - know that jargon is something that comes and goes and as a result, we are often very weary of fashionable...
NOTE TO READER: If you are reading Wonder - please consider joining our FlipGrid collaboration (just fill out form below). We are so lucky to be starting our first reading unit of the year, based around one of the best children's books ever...
From Classroom 2.o LIVE - our webinar about The Google Infused Classroom. August 5, 2017. Welcome back to a new school year! We are so excited to have two amazing educators and authors, Holly Clark and Tanya Avrith, to help us kick off our new year! They will share...
Whether you agree with Summer breaks in Education or not, almost all teachers get them and most teachers enjoy them (despite the minor harassment we get from our friends in other professions). But all good things must come to an end and starting the school year after...
As we get more and more devices in our classrooms, it is important that we realize how we can use them to do amazing things - like making student thinking visible and allowing us to amplify student voice by hearing from all of our students. This way we can know...
Our new book, The Google Infused Classroom is only about one month away from being released. I often present on the Google Infusions at educational summits. For those people who do not attend my sessions, I am often asked "What is a Google...
You may have heard about HyperDocs, seen the chatter around Twitter about Dive Into Inquiry, or even been to a Google Infused Classroom session at a Google Summit. But did you know that the authors of these three books are trying to revolutionize PD? The authors...
Stories read by actors for children…what a great idea.
Updated May 2017 - with good news! I am a huge fan of iPads AND Chromebooks. I think both can be integrated purposefully into the classroom in ways that are very powerful to the learning experience. Both devices can accomplish almost any form of masterful...
Having students think about validating information they find on the web is a highly important and critical digital literacy skill. In the past, my students used a framework called R.E.A.L- (described below) taken from Alan November’s Web...
In late 2015, my best friend's daughter was going through something really horrific at school. She would come home and cry about math tests and she was beginning to show signs of hating school. Tanya and I think it was because her teacher was so caught up in making...
