21st Century Skills and Distance Learning

Having taken classes online and in the classroom and taught in the classroom both with computers and without computers I have learned a few things.
1. 21st century skills include CREATIVITY, collaboration, time management, problem solving…and a few others I can not name off the top of my head.  Students need to have a very different [...]

WiFi in the Most Unlikely Places

This last weekend I travelled by bus with students up to Seattle for a college visit and on the way back down I-5 I saw something that made me smile . We pulled into a rest area in the middle of no where (seriously there was nothing around but trees and clear [...]

Computer Access for Middle Schoolers

I am a Fifth year teacher beginning seventh grade science for the first time next year in a new city with a new demographic. Up until now I have been working in at Chemawa Indian School teaching a range of high school science subjects to students ranging in age from 14 to 20. [...]