During the Golden Globe awards 2011 the host Ricky Gervais might have gone too far in making jokes about the
Category: Research
Teaching social studies
I have mentioned it before, but if you teach social studies, American history or American government, I would truly recommend
Valedictorian speaks out againt schooling
This video is not the best quality, bu if you liten carfully there is an important message here. Classroom aitivity
The media’s role in the international society
This year one of our curriculum goals is to analyze and evaluate English speaking medias, and their role in the
Reading in class
Reading just got easier after the December announcement from Amazon that they now allow lending of ebooks between Kindle users making
How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Can a theory that explains why successful organizations fail and newcomers prevail help turn around America’s public schools? Michael B.
Changing education paradigms
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates,
Qwiki
This time I stumbled on news about Qwiki from “Free technolgy for teachers” via the Facebookpage. If you are not
Free dictionary and translator
Image via CrunchBase Still on my morning RSS feed and found this interesting program for free called eType. As usual
Learning languages
Reading my morning RSS feed I stumbled over this post on one of my favorite blogs “Free Technology for teachers“.
Reverse teaching in a 1:1 environment
Changing the way students learn I have given a lot of thought lately about teaching in a 1:1 school. I
Conference in Norway
Sandvika vgs high school hosts a conference every year around October – November. This year I think we had a
Sharing and learning
Just returned from a great week in South Africa. The Microsoft world wide innovative education forum was an amazing event.
Starting a pln – what is it?
What is a PLN and is it something I should know about? PLN is a personal learning network. It is
