Exploring the intersection of the Christian faith, education, and technology. Including interests in new learning and baseball.
As many of you know, I really appreciate the work and writing of George Couros. He is both inspiring and challenging in his posts -- posts which I very much appreciate. Yesterday Couros shared the graphic on the left as well as this post that outlined the importance for teachers to take a true break …
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I have not put a links list together for quite some time to share the items I have found. Perhaps you will find some links that are of interest to you from this list: Ten Creative Alternatives to Showing Movies Before Break -- Many educators are worn down by the middle of December and look …
I really appreciate so much of what David Geurin (@DavidGeurin) posts on education. Here is an important tweet on how to create engagement in a classroom. For myself, these steps took years of intentional practice but I believe these now, after 30 years of teaching, come pretty natural to me. Still, these are a great …
Perhaps you have heard of fantasy baseball or fantasy football, where the real life stats of players on your "team" are compiled to help a team to victory. Well, welcome to fantasy politics. This is an activity I am currently using with my Lights Academy seniors. They have really embraced learning about different servants in …
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 …
I was intrigued by the following article that I cam across this weekend: Farewell, Valedictorian: High Schools Drop Tradition of Naming Top Student For me, this is a welcome trend since this is an award that, I believe, is less about learning and more about achievement. The valedictorian at a school could be a fearless …
My goal is to have students own their learning -- to explore and to take risks. In many ways, our education system as whole has not encouraged them to be courageous learners, replacing this curiosity with compliance. The other day a student reached out to me with a new plan for sharing their current project …
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 …
