EPS Ideas Blog

Please, for the love of God, read this before you send another email.

Had to put it our there for people to read

Maybe it isn't email that I have such a problem with... 

Ideas for class or perhaps a textbook for an elective?

Check out the culture of the meetings at Google - very cool to watch.

How many of these 9 Dangers are taught here? I think we do a pretty good job of avoiding them.

As much as I love the idea of doing 'project based learning' in my class, most of the value is lost if it only exists in one class. This video does a great job of describing what's needed to really make PBL worth the time and effort.

This is pretty awesome, though Canvas has most of the functionality already built into it. 

This sucks.

Something to consider implementing with content groups to help improve consistency of experience for the same class? I think this could potentially help address the problem that instigated this weeks Listening groups.

I would really love to make this a school-wide 'thing' for getting stuff done. Have everything just shut down for 25 minutes for a Pomodoro - awesome.

I'd be on board with that, how do we generate some momentum. I've used this myself and with a few students in the past for tutoring and it works really well.

I personally find it amazing that "gamers' are still stigmatized, though that seems to be decreasing. My question is, do we give kids enough time to play games?

A laptop connected to the internet may provide the ultimate distraction, but they may also provide the ultimate will power aids. You wouldn't blame a hammer for smashing your thumb - let's use these things well.

I think this one was written for Matt.

Interesting look at science curriculum

Design as a literacy - design is about problem solving. The design process embodies TALI in a way that few things do. 

Good stuff.

ahem...

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So there!