For the past week, I’ve been home enjoying Spring Break with my two elementary-age children. Free from the specter of homework, we indulged ourselves with movies, fast food, backyard sports, and a healthy dose of video games. Although my fingers have slowed down a bit with age, I can still hold my own in Madden [...]

The March issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership includes Marc Prensky’s thought-provoking article, Turning On the Lights. The premise of his well-crafted piece is that schools need to embrace students’ technology-infused lives instead of asking them to “power down” their minds and mobile devices while in the classroom. As Prensky observes: “Somehow, schools have decided that [...]

Mike Fitzgerald, a 7th grade History teacher, recently described how he created The International History Detectives wiki to study the Second World War from a global perspective. One of the project participants, Aleksandra Blalteberg, from Junior High School No. 4, in Gdynia, Poland, crafted her perspective on the project and graciously agreed to share her [...]