Here is a Tweet of the Day for today: This tweet really caught my attention. This is a truth for me and I am sure most educators. Why is that? Is it fear? Are many fearful that this process will hurt them in some way? Has one been burned by this before? Is it a …
Tag: Education
Tweet of the Day — 1.1.2018
Happy New Year to all readers of FaithEdTech! May we all celebrate God's gifts of learning, service, and salvation in 2018! Here is a tweet of the day to start the year. I have held on to it for a couple days, pondering its application to the education process. I think it speaks to the …
Words for 2018
You may have noticed on Twitter and elsewhere that folks have started selecting a single word on which to reflect and work in the coming year. Seen as an alternative to traditional start-of-the-year resolutions (which typically are broken quickly), people have taken to Twitter to share their word using the #oneword2018 or #oneword hashtags. Typically …
FaithEdTech 12.17.2017 Links List
Here are some helpful links that I found this weekend: 5 Good Alternatives to Google Image Search -- Educators and students are always looking for good sources for royalty free images or those with the appropriate Creative Commons status. These links are helpful for anyone wanting to remain in good copyright compliance. 6 Strategies for …
Links List — 12.11.2017
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 …
Faithfully Learning Posts
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 …
Conference Instagram Images
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 …
Northwest District Conference Resources
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 …
Valedictorians, Learning, and Achievement
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 …
When Students Ask Permission
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 …
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