This I Believe
Learning is What It Means to be Human I believe that learning is what it means to be human. It is our great evolutionary adaption that has allowed us to not only physically thrive as…
Tag Archives: Pedagogy
Social Media Tools and the Classroom
My colleagues, Matthew Forgy and Sonja Miljkovic, and I recently conducted a test run of Edmodo.com with a group of teachers. Edmodo is an educational social media platform designed to mimic Facebook so that it is…
Springfield to Portlandia
From Springfield to Portlandia… I love my hometown, Portland. I want people to know about what a great–if a little strange–place it is. I grew up there, in fact I am fifth generation–a relatively hard feat for…
Analyze This!
Some Thoughts on Flipping Classrooms & Economic Lesson Plans For a teaching class that I am taking this summer, Advanced Trends in Educational Theory, I was given an assignment to critically analyze three distinct lessons–with…