Shifting Our Schools Podcast

As our 1:1 Summer of Fun comes to an end I share with you some of the other resources that we released this summer that you might not know about and you get to hear a Lunch Keynote I delivered this month at a STEM conference here in the State of Washington. Enjoy! Links:  Eduro Learning...

Highly Structured, Loosely Organized learning enviornments are what is needed in a technology rich classroom if we are going to use technology in authentic and purposeful ways in learning. In this episode I talk about what that means, how I applied it to a 6th grade class and ask for you to help me get...

Jeff and David talk about how to recruit to become an International Educator

How can the IB curriculum be shifted?

From Morocco to Bangkok: How goes it?

Introductions Cheryl Capozzoli, Rob Newberry and John Mikton joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast. Essential Question How can we help teachers take more risks in their teaching and learning? Blog Posts of the Week Jeff: Twitter in Time Mag, Google Wave Cheryl: Tech Soup, Web 2.0 Guru David: Edorigami Thinking Hats, Wes Fryer Take...

Introductions Chris Blessing from the Mont’Kiari School in Malaysia joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast. Essential Question How to do a school tech makeover on the cheap? Blog Posts of the Week Jeff: Wired for Learning, U of the People student responsibilities, 21st C Educators Chris: Mahara for Open Source E porfolios, Chris’ Wiki...

Introductions Andy Torris from Shanghai American School joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast. Essential Question How to measure how shifted your school is? Blog Posts of the Week   Jeff: Facebook and Academics Andy: Chief Learning Officer, The Thinking Chick David: Listing of Shifted Schools Sign Off *Next show date is May 21 at...

Introductions Mark Hofer of the College of William & Mary and Michael Kelly of The Harriet Tubman Free School joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast. Essential Question How are we preparing pre-service teachers to be shifted educators? Blog Posts of the Week David: Clay Burell’s post on teacher prep programs. Michael: Ben Grey’s blog...

Introductions Kim Cofino of the International School Bangkok and Amanda DeCardy of Shanghai American School joined David and Jeff for tonight’s podcast. Essential Question How to move students from being dependent to independent learners? Blog Posts of the Week David: Lian, a 7th grader’s blog Amanda & Kim: Armitage’s Army Room 202 Math Video Room...