iBooks Highlight Need to Reform Education Funding

Government moves faster than a typesetter can arrange metal cast letters into pages, place them in a frame to make a forme, placed onto a bed, ink the letters, place a paper between the frisket and tympan, and roll the bed under the platen, with the windlass mechanism. (Wikipedia) Well, not quite. A printing press is much faster. Apple's iBook 2 announcement is [...]

Posted by milesmac on January 19th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Pedagogy

Amazing story of interpersonal giftedness

Picture this: a new student arrives mid year, emotionally scarred from past traumas, social service files inches thick and an obvious fish out of water in this new school. Looking different than everyone else at this middle school, her body language screams out rage mixed with fear and the threat of something bad if you [...]

Posted by milesmac on January 14th, 2012 | 5 Comments Posted in Pedagogy

Laptop screens are not handles. Pics, so it happened.

Students learned a lesson in how to handle technology. This laptop is now living its' new life as a representation of a cautionary tale in the hallway display case.  

Posted by milesmac on January 14th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Pedagogy

Minecraft 05: Students Start Virtual Project Based Learning

"Reconstruct an ancient Greek structure to scale. Later, you will take a visiting student on a virtual guided tour explaining everything you know about the building and its' purpose in ancient times. Your visitor should be amazed at how smart you are." That is the educational Minecraft project, in a nutshell. There aren't a lot of criteria. I [...]

Posted by milesmac on January 9th, 2012 | 1 Comment Posted in Gamification, Projects