Author Archives: scribelife
Tips for bringing online collaborators into the classroom
Last Saturday I presented a session on community collaborative writing at Littleton Public Schools’ Inspired Learning Conference. Here is a link to the presentation, though the conversations led to most of the discovery during that hour. Here are some of … Continue reading
So you’re an expert? Make it into a game.
The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. Once you have taught it to other people and want to learn more, build a game that models and teaches it for you. To create a game … Continue reading
Collaborative Writing – Biography Career Day
“Career Day gone wrong” has been a staple for writers of family sitcoms for decades. Children sit and listen while parents and relatives come in and talk about what they do for a living. The teacher invites the community into … Continue reading
A Day in the Future – An Educational Fantasy
Atlas wakes up as if Santa has come and left presents for her. Instead of running to the living room and looking under a tree, she runs instead to her desk and unplugs her tablet. With the eagerness that only … Continue reading
The Voices of the Young
My wife and I will constantly catch ourselves quoting Pep Talk by Kid President. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve said to one another,”I’m on your team, be on my team.” There are so many great ideas in the … Continue reading
Flipping -The Student’s Perspective
The students of today live in a much larger social world. They are connected to many communities through the use of their cell phones and websites such as Facebook or Twitter. Being digital natives, they are quite accustomed to finding … Continue reading
Assessing Digital Resources
There are many digital resources that you can use for students to access during student time. How can teachers tell which resources are valuable and which are not? How can teachers evaluate their own creations? I’ve created a rubric that … Continue reading
Upcoming Video Podcast
“Let’s Make a Lesson” video podcast will start on 4-2-2013. Our first episode will be “Cells, Tissue, Organs and Body Systems – Elementary Science” Each week we will invite teachers to share the screen in putting together … Continue reading
Inquiry Based Learning
Inquiry Based Learning Inquiry based learning is the theory that the educational experience should stem from students questioning the world they live in. The difficult part about inquiry based learning is the structure. The public education world has set guidelines … Continue reading
Key Components of a Flipped Classroom
There is a lot of information about the flipped classroom concept available on the Internet. As I’m asked what exactly is the flipped classroom, I wanted to give a more in-depth explanation. Of course the main point you can read … Continue reading