As part of my professional growth, I have been reading selections from Robert Marzano’s “Classroom Instruction That Works.” While it can often be difficult to bridge the gap between academic research and daily practice, Marzano’s comments (and those of others) concerning feedback crystallized for me this evening as I went through my son’s “weekly” [...]

As the parent of a 1st grader, “Show and Tell” homework is a regular occurrence in our home, and the task of finding something suitable to match the “letter of the week” is often a challenge. This afternoon, while helping my daughter search for a stuffed zebra, she asked me if I ever got [...]

On Tuesday, the Frontline documentary “Growing Up Online” explored how the Internet is transforming the experience of childhood. Our students’ digital world, which Frontline described as being “largely hidden from parents and teachers,” is one that we must come to understand. While you can draw your own conclusions from the program, the issues [...]

Every Monday my 3rd grader brings home a folder containing all of his schoolwork from the previous week. Being something of a pack rat, I have kept these papers in a cupboard since the first day of school. This weekend marked the half-way point of the academic year, and in a fit of [...]

In a recent post about del.icio.us, I highlighted the advantages of tagging and saving bookmarks online instead of locally. Having information tethered to one computer is not practical, convenient, or necessary. The same holds true for important data files; your “desktop” takes on a whole new meaning when working with multiple computers in various [...]