by Jennifer Carey | Mar 26, 2014 | Making The Shift, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning
K12 schools are slow to address digital literacy, says technology coach and teacher Jen Carey, when they view it as more content to cover – not a cross-curricular component of teaching. In this post she suggests a better way, with several examples from her history classroom .
by Jennifer Carey | Mar 3, 2014 | Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices
Inspired by the flipped classroom model, school-based coach Jennifer Carey is flipping her tech-related professional development to provide faculty more flexible learning opportunities and just-in-time support.
by Jennifer Carey | Feb 12, 2014 | Making The Shift, The Compelling Need for Change, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices
School-based tech leader Jennifer Carey shares some highlights from the semi-annual iPad Summit, held most recently in San Diego, with keynoters Audrey Watters and Mimi Ito.
by Ann Michaelsen | Feb 2, 2014 | Connected Leadership, Making The Shift, Voices
We choose to move forward and change our schools in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win!
by Jennifer Carey | Dec 16, 2013 | Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning
Perhaps, writes school-based technology leader Jennifer Carey, instead of focusing our concerns on technology as a wonderful aid to plagiarizers, we should focus on its ability to foster creativity and collaboration, and then ask ourselves (we are the clever adults here) how we can incorporate those elements in our teaching and assessment.
by Becky Bair | Aug 29, 2013 | Making The Shift, Passion Based Learning, The Compelling Need for Change, Voices
As the new school year begins, teachers can change their “stuff,” says Becky Bair. That’s the easy part. But if they haven’t changed their teaching lives to fit the needs of today’s students, then their classrooms will never become places where powerful learning is always going on.