Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2009
The National Council for Teachers of English has declared Tuesday October 20th, as National Writing Day. This is a way for ELA teachers to explore new ways to stimulate their students to write. There are contest and activities for all content areas. Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 15th, 2009
Sheskey Learning Solutions is coming up on the one year anniversary of its inception. I hosted, facilitated, and guided over 400 teachers from all around the country in various workshop environments. The quality professional development experience those teachers had proves that educators are hungry for the strategies to make productive connections with their students. In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2009
There needs to be fundamental change in the professional development experiences for teachers. I am designing experiences for teachers to upgrade professional development from “technology integration skills” to “digital literacy skills for the modern world“. Here is why…
The traditional classrooms in American schools were first formed in the 1840’s and if one looks into schools [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2009
The children entering our schools are different than ever before. The well known author, teacher, and game designer Marc Prensky coined the terms “digital native” and “digital immigrant” early in this decade. If veteran educators today can look at themselves as “digital immigrants” and understand that the young people today are “digital natives” it will [...]
