Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. --Mary Moore
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21st Century Storyboarding
Silvia Tolisano, a 21st Century Learning Specialist at Martin J. Gottlieb Day School does an incredible job of coaching and mentoring many in what it means to ensure students are living and learning in the 21st century.
VocabGrabber
A feature within Visual Thesarus, an on-line visual organizer, is VocabGrabber. There is great potential for student engagement using this tool. Here is what the web site says about the tool...
Why Are We Mapping?
I received an e-mail recently from a teacher who contacted me with a concern that I have heard more than once. The main content of her e-mail read:
My district has had us writing personal maps now for three years. Each month we are told to make sure our maps are up to date, but no one looks at the maps. It is busy work to me. Please tell me how this is helping my students get better at learning.
The Times They Are a-Changin'
As I was working recently for two days with a newly formed Curriculum Mapping Cadre, we spent some time discussing Joshua, a [real] Kindergarten student who will be graduating in 2022, and the necessity for him to experience learning involving Web 2.0 tools (and eventually 3.0+ tools), collaborative learning, critical thinking, and meaningful local/global interactions and exchanges. This particular district has a tight firewall due to community culture and policy.