One of my goals this year is to have my students use Socratic to answer questions that other students have asked. If you missed my original post regarding my goals around this activity, check it out here. We have done 4 rounds of postings so far this year – 3 of these have been written … Continue reading →

Today was session 2 in Independent Education’s Teacher-Mentor Leadership Institute which I have the opportunity to participate in this year. We will meet a total of 4 times over the course of the year, each time mentors and mentees for the full day. A lot of our day together was conversational and so I only really … Continue reading →

I am excitedly coordinating an Hour of Code project for our Upper School to participate in this year! Hour of Code will be required for all 10th grade students, and encouraged for all students, as well faculty and staff. To kickstart things, I created a video to present Hour of Code at our Upper School … Continue reading →

The final keynote of #iNACOL14 was given by Michael Horn, author of Blended and Disrupting Class. This was my favorite keynote of the conference. I read Disrupting Class a couple years back and Horn’s talk made me want to go back and skim over some sections. My notes, in tweets: #blendedlearning: 1. promise of personalization – … Continue reading →

Discussion on the lawn: “Leading Innovations in Learning” with Michael Horn, author of Blended and Disrupting Class This session ran as Horn fielding questions from the audience (as a group at the beginning of the session and then again in the middle) and weaved the answers into his speaking. Some highlights I grabbed: #Blended solutions … Continue reading →

Well, I was super excited about this session, but all that happened was presenters reading through their document of tech tools… and then asking participants for tools they liked. No context, just tools… If you’re interested, here is the document of tech tools – Creating Digital Grit: Tech Tools to Transform Your Teaching

Day #2 at #iNACOL14 with Gene Wilhoit. We’re at the point where policy & practice must come together. Stop working around the system, & work on the system. ~Gene Wilhoit #iNACOL14 — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) November 6, 2014 #iNACOL14 Gene Wilhout: Schooling, as we know it, is in a weakened state.” It’s time to change…and … Continue reading →

Some odds & ends from afternoon sessions — Discover Open Tools for Personalized Learning Competency Education Toolkit for Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction, & Grading (a ton of documents shared in this session) Using ePortfolios to Evaluate Teachers for Idaho’s K-12 Online Teaching Endorsement Full notes here…

Video instruction can feel like a judgement free, on demand learning environment #iNACOL14 — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) November 5, 2014 Videos are just a start. A real education involves human beings, interaction, community, … ~@salkhanacademy #iNACOL14 — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) November 5, 2014 “Online learning isn’t to replace the physical classroom; it’s to liberate the … Continue reading →

Blended learning offers multiple curricula paths, which pushes toward greater student-centered pedagogy #blendedjourney #iNACOL14 — Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) November 5, 2014 Blended Learning Innovations: 10 major trends via @tvanderark #iNACOL14 #blendedjourney pic.twitter.com/GrRbDbJscN — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) November 5, 2014   Blended Learning Innovations: 10 Major Trends paper by @DreamBox_Learn & @Getting_Smart http://t.co/of7EVlaiWX #BlendedJourney — … Continue reading →