Exploring the intersection of the Christian faith, education, and technology. Including interests in new learning and baseball.
This is likely to be a controversial post, and in a sense, the title is a bit of click bait. But don't think of it as click bait. Think of it as an invitation to a conversation with which we all need to be involved. In revolutionary times such as this (and the digital revolution …
Continue reading This Tech Bashing Is Misguided — Here’s Why
Last week I addressed for the first time at FaithEdTech questions about sleep and rest for students and educators (click here for the initial blog post). The second post was designed to study the impact of sleep deprivation on educators, including myself. However, though I will still address this in future post, I am compelled …
Continue reading Students, Educators, and Sleep (Part Two and Project Idea)
I have participated in Twitter chats for several years now. However I have not been as faithful in joining these education chats as of late. This weekend was different. As I sat in front of my computer both yesterday morning and today I noticed that several educators I follow were engaged in chats to start …
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Over the past several months I have crafted several blog posts for Concordia Publishing House. These posts have similar themes to that of FaithEdTech in that the explore the intersection of faith, education, and technology, but they also serve to point to resources from the publishing house that can help support these three ideas. Here are …
I have really enjoyed spending the past three days in Kennewick, WA, where the Northwest District Professional Church Workers' Conference has taken place. Lots of meaningful conversations took place with wonderful servants of the Lord. I am thankful to have been asked to lead at this conference. In my final session today we talked about …
Today through Friday I have the privilege of gathering together with other Lutheran school educators at the 2017 Northwest District Educators Conference of the LCMS. I always appreciate the opportunity to gather together with other teachers, share with them, and learn from them. I am facilitating four different sessions over the next three days. The …
Here is today's list of links which may be helpful to educators: 7 Ways to Become a More Connected Educator Today -- If you are reading this, you probably are already a connected educator, using technological and online resources to improve your partitioning of education in your classroom. I know I probably need to be …
A few days ago I posted about the fascinating education quotes from George Couros, the keynote speaker at the Indiana District Lutheran Teachers Conference where I shared sessions and attended. I have also building a storehouse of quotes for educators. These are not really as deep or profound as those I shared from Couros, but …
I am pleased to be in Indiana today as we discuss personalized learning strategies across the grades in the morning and formative assessment strategies in the afternoon. Here are the session resources that connect with these two topics. Feel free to review these if these topics are of any interest to you as an educator. …
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There are lots of interesting links for education to share this weekend. Hopefully each viewer will find something of interest and value in this list. Also, you may feel free to share links with me that you have found as well. Here is today's links list: How a School Ditched Awards Assemblies to Refocus on …
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