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Tech Integration: Factories and Obsitancy
Click here to view the embedded video. I’ve posted this video in my course 3 blog about sketch-notes, because it provided a cool animated version of visual note-taking, but it became relevant in this...
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PBL and WWW
A screenshot of my WWW Moodle page Week Without Walls is a huge part of our school year, so when our principal asked the grade 7 team to create at least one interdisciplinary PBL project for seventh...
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Think Before You Flip Out.
Photo Credit: thisisbossi via Compfight cc Ah yes, the flipped classroom– yet another “revolutionary” idea in education. I’m sorry if I am oozing sarcasm on this one. My cynicism may not come as a...
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From Factory Schools to…Factory Schools?
By Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsIn 1762, Jean Jacques Rousseau, the French Enlightenment philosopher published Emile, or On Education, a book that he...
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Laptops: Weapons of Mass Distraction?
Photo Credit: tcoffey via Compfight cc “Dip your lids, please.” I can’t imagine how many times I’ve said this in my classroom over the past four years. You see, my current school has a1:1 laptop...
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Why did I choose this unit? This unit is part of our Week Without Walls, which is a “big deal” at our school. For our WWW, the grade 7 students travel students to the Omo Valley, a remote part of...
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Week Without Walls: A Work in Progress
Disclaimer: This blog was actually written before the end of February. Due to protests in Ethiopia, my host country, the internet connection at my school was too poor for me to upload my blog. These...
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A Bomb Gets Dropped– Back to the Drawing Board
Article from theguardian.com Trip cancelled This has been a tough year in Ethiopia. A lackluster summer rainy season led to droughts in the North. Protests broke out in the...
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When Bubble Burst, They Become Connections
Photo Credit: Beth M527 via Compfight cc Being an international teacher undoubtedly has its perks. Our salaries are tax free, and we get to live in really cool places and teach in classrooms comprised...
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Course Five: Final Reflection
Click here to view the embedded video. I’m beat. I’m so tired I can’t even come up with a witty title for this final blog. Yet as I come crashing down, it’s good time to reflect on what I’m taking a...
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