Just as “Web 2.0″ was coined to refer to the far more powerful tools available online today and how people are using them, Teaching 2.0 refers to the next grade of teaching required to meet the challenges of helping students achieve full participation in a highly technological society.
What is it like to be teaching in an environment that encourages global citizenship? What are the challenges and victories experienced by teachers and students day-to-day?
Just click on one of the titles below to find out how teachers in our county describe their experiences of teaching, using the education strategies they have discovered and that are supported by NapaLearns.
Today was the second day of the new school year, and just like last year, there are not enough books to go around. Once upon a time, we used to have class sets of our textbooks and additional copies available for students to have at home. Now, while each student has a copy of their [...]
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Previously, I blogged about the inspiration I had to use my freshmen class as a sort of training ground for journalism recruits. That project is still a work in process, but even as it was unfolding, I received news that our journalism class has been cut for next year due to a lack of enrollment. [...]
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Educational technology has at least as many critics as it has advocates–if not more. While I have acknowledge some of the criticism of the SC21 program in the past, I would like to take a moment to speak directly to the benefits and criticisms of educational technology in the classroom. Though technology can serve as [...]
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Technically, my journey already began when I started my Master’s Program and wrote my first blog about it, but now the journey has a clear path ahead. For my Master’s Thesis, I’ve decided I want to focus on the following inquiry: Will the creation and use of online student portfolios, the effective creation and use [...]
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The most time consuming part of Project Based Learning is the actual project planning. While there are resources available at my disposal of projects that other teachers have done, I have always preferred planning projects that have an immediate relevancy to my students. That is to say, my projects have a reactionary component to them. [...]
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Last Thursday I attended the first session of class for a Master’s Program offered through Touro University. The program itself is for a Master’s in Educational Technology and has been made possible through a generous scholarship from none other than Napa Learns. Along with myself, eight other teachers have seized upon this opportunity to better [...]
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Today, two of my colleagues and I were invited to observe Project Based Learning presentations at McPherson Elementary school. Though the students giving the presentations were third graders, the presentations were professional, polished, prepared, and could clearly teach our students a thing or two. It is not that my colleagues and I are any less [...]
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Today, there was a Professional Development day for Humanities teachers at New Tech High School. While collaborating with my professional peers within our district is always a rewarding and memorable experience, what stuck out for me today was seeing the new facilities at New Tech. If you get a chance, go check them out. The [...]
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Many people feel that the 21st Century element of SC21 is a requisite for computers. This is simply not true. While we are blessed to have technology to enhance our learning, while we use Web 2.0 tools and other cutting edge, educational programs to enhance our curriculum, and while we digitally deliver content and receive [...]
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