Wiki Reflection - Final Project

Due August 5
Reflect on our final project of creating a wiki for your classroom use and share your thoughts on the benefits and limitations of using wikis in the classroom environment.

Focusing the Digital Brain

Due July 29
After reading the article, Focusing the Digital Brain, concentrate on the suggested methods that the author offers to break the pattern of "continuous partial attention" in students. Which of these suggested methods are you most likely to use in your classroom, if any, and why?

What Would Socrates Say?

Due July 22
Read the article What Would Socrates Say? from Educational Leadership magazine and linked from the wikispaces page. In the article it states, “He (Socrates) believed that learning came from within and that the best and most lasting way to bring latent knowledge to awareness was through the process of continual questioning and unconventional inquiry.” How do you think technology can assist us with this Socratic method of teaching? (Think about the example of the Water for the World curriculum and the Google business strategy.)

Transformation not Transition

Due July 15
Read the article Education Transformation that Works linked from the wikispaces page. Comment on whether you think this is a marketing ploy for the Promethean boards or if you think the five essential learning principles are really critical in education today. Be sure to state your reasons why.

Social Networking in Schools

Due July 8
Read the article: Social Networking Goes to School and the accompanying comments following the article.

Comment on the article with your opinion of social networking sites being used in education and the challenges and rewards of doing so.