In July we visited with practitioners of teaching and learning in America's K-12 industry.  There were several thousand of them attending Alan November's annual conference in Newton, Massachusetts.  They are very interested in web and online tools and sharing their online discoveries with each other.  

 

E-mail may seem intuitive, but it's because we've had years to become familiar with it. On the other hand, social networking's rapid acceptance seems to result from it's actually being intuitive.

Ewan McIntosh

Learning & Teaching Scotland

 

On Second Life, Sloodle is a mashup of Moodle. A physics engine is operational on Second Life, but it's somewhat primitive.

Peggy Sheehy

Virtual Education Consultant

 

I teach, therefore I blog.

David Truss

Maillard Middle School (Canada)

 

Some kids are bonders. Some kids are bridgers. We don't yet have analytical tools in K-12 education to tell them apart.

Clarence Fisher

Snow Lake, Manitoba

 

'Foldables' are excellent tools for teaching 3-dimensional thinking on a 2-dimensional computer screen.

EASTCONN

 

Web 2.0 tools are making personal learning environments do-able. My students share project assets, act as peer editors, and form global communities. At the heart of it all is iGoogle.

Carol LaRow

Education and training consultant

 

It's daunting to explain a math problem's solution with written text or by e-mail. Camtasia enables me to do so in a video-like way.

Eric Marcos

Lincoln Middle School (CA)

 

 

At age six, kindergarten students in Hong Kong begin to use Wikis, blogs, learning footprints and other web tools.

Alan November

November Learning