The Responsive Classroom approach focuses on practical ways of meshing social and academic learning. It is interesting to see how web 2.0 tools have the power to support all of the seven key principles of this 20-plus year old program.

1. The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
2. How children learn is as […]

I am helping start an online professional development community as part of our Elgg site.  My role will be to encourage and model the professional growth opportunities that are possible with this technology. That being said, I have a surface knowledge of school improvement and assessment, and when I come across information that may be […]

This post is actually a spin-off from some comments that were made to an original post by Sarah Richter. The focus of the post was related to school improvement and professional development. The first comment took a different spin, and asked the question…”What if we have identified the wrong goal?”. What skills should today’s […]

In my stumbling around looking at cool things people are doing with web 2.0 tools I came across the EdTechLIVE recordings page. One of the podcasts on the site is an interview with “Arthus”, (file) a 14 year old student, talking about his use of web 2.0 tools and how schools are missing an opportunity […]