April 28, 2015
by Bea Leiderman
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I love Wikipedia. I argue with anyone who says it is bad, and I’ve even created a document to help teachers use Wikipedia effectively with their students. There is something special about this giant collective work and the community that … Continue reading
October 7, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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It is easy for educators to sit in a faculty meeting or professional development session seemingly paying attention and nodding along to what they hear while secretly vowing to wait until this new fad passes by. Deeper Learning, however, deserves … Continue reading
September 5, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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Yesterday I arrived at my house to find my children hooting with laughter as they scrolled down a list of fake country names created by my daughter’s classmates. How often do kids stay up late working on an assignment that … Continue reading
June 2, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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Over the weekend I traveled to an event in Florida and got to talk to Marcelo Stavale Molina very briefly at the end of a session. He is a Brazilian educator and his students do quite lot with Scratch (link … Continue reading
May 22, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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It is that time of the year when kids are walking down the hall talking about Standards of Learning tests, how they did, and how much they hate this or that. When I was in high school, I hated history. … Continue reading
May 20, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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I’m currently working on a children’s book about ladybugs, and after collecting video of a larva eating an aphid this weekend, I was trying to find out if ladybug larvae have teeth. In my searching, I ran across something I … Continue reading
February 11, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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The Math Department at GHS will be working on G21 projects over the next couple of months. Students will be working on iPads to create tutorials for their peers. Rather than using cords to move files from iPads to computers … Continue reading
January 8, 2014
by Bea Leiderman
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Seeing technology as a distraction rather than a learning tool is ridiculously common. I see teachers struggle with this predicament and I feel an obligation to change their minds. When ball point pens were invented, some schools banned them because… … Continue reading
December 18, 2013
by Bea Leiderman
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How do you know your students really understand what they have read? Of course, you ask ten multiple choice questions and award kids points on some expensive system, right? Not in Ms. Thomas’s class. Ms. Thomas and her students read … Continue reading
December 17, 2013
by Bea Leiderman
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Last week, at the VSTE annual conference, I attended a session about project-based Language Arts classrooms. During the Q&A at the end of the session, I mentioned our G21 framework and a project from a teacher at GMS. The teacher … Continue reading
