MOOCs and You Richard White 2013-03-23
Doug Johnson, as always, has words of wisdom over at Blue Skunk Blog, where he regularly weighs in with wisdom and insight on the very same topics that I find so interesting: the intersection of technology, teaching, and learning.
His January 29 entry is entitled “MOOCs—need K-12 pay attention?”, [...]
IT’S A JUNGLE OUT HERE Richard White 2013-03-14
I’ve been wanting to write for a long time about the challenges that technology users face in some schools, in some rooms, in some educational cultures. It’s something that we all face on occasion, from a colleague who “doesn’t really do technology” to a school leader with [...]
“Back of the Book” Answers
by Richard White
2012-10-04
Welcome back to the new school year!
One of the very first things I did when I started incorporating technology into my teaching was to put homework answers online for my physics students. I was relatively new to teaching physics, and what I learned pretty quickly [...]
Opening the Gates
2012-08-24
by Richard White
It’s a new school year! I don’t see my students for another few days, but many of the teachers are already back at work, greeting colleagues, cleaning classrooms, prepping calendars and websites, and a hundred and one other things that go into starting things up again.
It’s a [...]
Bee Venom & Training Devices 2012-08-18 by Richard White
I’m allergic to bee venom.
It wasn’t always that way. Growing up, I got stung by my share of bees, and hornets, and yellowjackets. I recall one particular time when I was riding down the road on my motorcycle when I happened to catch a bee [...]
HOW TO FLIP YOUR CLASSROOM
2012-06-30
by Richard White
Flipping a classroom consists of off-loading (usually to the Internet) some of the non-interactive aspects of one’s classroom, in favor of using time in-class for activities that take advantage of the teacher’s immediate presence.
Perhaps the most obvious example might be this:
At school At home [...]
NOTES ON THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM
by Richard White
2012-06-27
Okay, the singularity has arrived. My friend Sharon, an outstanding English teacher who has remained, to this point, a very traditional and non-technology-based instructor, just texted me from an ed conference she’s at, and she wants to try out this whole “flipped classroom” thing.
She wants [...]
Late night provisions for Computer Science homework session at Udacity
UDACITY
by Richard White
2012-04-03
Today I finished the first online course that I’ve ever taken, thanks to my professor David Evans and Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun… and the experience has changed my life.
If you haven’t heard about Udacity you might consider a) [...]
THE REAL DEAL: A different kind of hybrid
2010-12-30
by Richard White
This site has been devoted to discussing the hybrid classroom, in which a traditional classroom-based curriculum has online components as an integral part of the course. For three weeks in November, however, my science students participated in a different kind of hybrid experience.
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“Just In Time” Learning
by Richard White
2010-12-06
“‘Hybrid classroom?’ Seriously? What effect could Internet use possibly have on student learning in my classes?”
I’m SO glad you asked. I have data on that. I’m in the process of running an experiment.
I teach physics, a subject that has some reputation as being a little [...]
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