Disrupting Class
In Dr. Christensen’s article, Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education is the Future, he applies his theory of disruptive innovation as a means of creating shifts in teaching paradigms. He predicts...
View ArticleBloom’s Digital Taxonomy & 21st Century Learning
This week I feel like I’m playing catch-up with the COETAIL coursework. Last weekend I didn’t get anything done for the course. Instead I went to the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong...
View ArticleChange Is Inevitable, Resistance Is Futile
Well another weekend spent working on work – that part of my life doesn’t seem to have changed much since becoming a teacher. Today I have a presentation (aka Dog-and-Pony Show) to give in our staff...
View ArticleGlobal Collaboration in ESL
Even though my school teaches off the British National curriculum and English is the language of instruction, English is not the dominate ethnic/language group. Our population is very diverse and does...
View ArticleCourse 1 Final Project
For this UbD project I decided to modify an existing unit plan that I used as the first unit for my Year 5-6 Intermediate ESL class. The focus is on getting the students to learn new vocabulary to...
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