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.
I think e-books are the inevitable future. A Kindle at retail is about $130, but I’m sure we could get them for much less. Many of the traditional texts taught in English class are either free to download or else are very inexpensive. The ability to highlight text and make notes digitally is an invaluable [...]
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“Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit the waters Around you have grown” -Bob Dylan First released in 1964, I cannot help but sit and think of Bob Dylan’s lyrics nearly half a century later as I sit down to write about the SC21 program. With every drop of change arises a sea [...]
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For the past six weeks or so, our students in the project-based learning classes at Vintage High have been working on the Vintage High School Creek Project 2010 and are now on their final learning tasks. This all began as a conversation in our House Leaders’ meeting at the Water House (the house that contains all the [...]
I’m quite honored to have been invited to share my musings with you, the curious community of Napa (and beyond). Who am I, you ask? I thought about making my first blog all about personal introductions, but then I thought, I’d rather reveal myself in bits and pieces over time. Hopefully, that will keep you [...]
