Over the past few weeks I’ve been highlighting the four themes that will guide the “curriculum and instruction” aspects of our 1:1 Tablet PC implementation: Information Management and Research Digital Citizenship Communication and Collaboration in a Global World Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Design The first, Information Management and Research, provides a unified research strategy. The [...]

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 [...]

I was recently tagged by fellow Middle School Instructional Technologist Matt Montagne to participate in the Meme Passion Quilt. Although I earned a C- in sewing in from my Home Economics teacher (and that was probably a gift), I couldn’t help but join the cause with some digital stitching: My professional passion can best be [...]