by brholland | Jul 10, 2014 | All Topics
A few weeks ago, I published a post about Cardboard Box Tools on Edutopia. The premise behind the article was the idea that children love to play with cardboard boxes because they are empty. A box could become anything, only limited by the child’s imagination....
by brholland | Jun 17, 2014 | All Topics, Future Learning
Remember the Jetsons? That iconic family of the future depicted in the 1960s cartoon? They lived in a futuristic society marked by flying cars and advanced technology — and yet, they learned in a lecture-based system with the teacher (albeit a robot one)...
by brholland | Jun 10, 2014 | All Topics, Blended Learning
A backchannel — a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activity — provides students with an outlet to engage in conversation. Every time I think about this tool, I remember my student, Charlie (not his real name). Given his...
by brholland | Jan 27, 2014 | All Topics, Future Learning
Think back 20 years. Pay phones still worked, and only doctors carried pagers. Laptops weighed as much as bowling balls, and few of us had Internet access. In fact, much of what we now consider commonplace — Google, email, WiFi, texting — was not even...
by brholland | Dec 16, 2013 | All Topics, Future Learning
On a given day, how much time do your students spend working on their fluency? At the elementary level, hours are devoted to reading and speaking fluency. In middle and high school, students read aloud, deliver oral presentations, and write in a variety of formats to...