Vicki A. Davis's Blog, page 170
March 7, 2014
The 3 Things We Can Do To Reach Every Child
As long as we talk about reaching every child – it is someone else’s problem. Instead what we should each be asking ourselves is how to reach that child right in front of us. Then we reach the child sitting beside her, and then, new one who just enrolled. We must focus on the living breathing children in our eyesight not just looking at the numbers on a page. Reaching every child should be what we do. It is in the educator’s DNA. This is not someone else’s problem it is the problem of everyon...
March 6, 2014
Save the Rhino: Join Karen Stadler and The Traveling Rhino Project
Karen Stadler @ICT_Integrator, from South Africa, is an educator on a mission to save the rhino. The Traveling Rhino Project creates awareness one child at a time.
She was in a local reserve in South Africa when she took a picture of five rhinos. The photo has haunted her as she realized that four or perhaps all five of these rhinos are now dead, killed senselessly because people mistakenly think their horns will cure hangovers and cancer.
These five rhinos now have names and travel the world.
A...
March 3, 2014
AdvancED Wyoming: Slides, Free Internet Safety Poster, Free Chapter [Link]
AdvancED Wyoming: Slides, Free Internet Safety Poster, Free Chapter
AdvancED Wyoming Conference
March 3, 2014
Today in Wyoming was incredible. Such wonderful educators working hard to do the right thing (and I saw the best speech I’ve ever seen given by a state administrator bar none. Wow.)
If you want to see the slides I shared on 12 Habits of a successful 21st Century Educator, 7 Steps to Connect Your Classroom, or Technology Driven Differentiated Instruction, they are all there. Plus..
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February 28, 2014
A Guidebook For Social Media in the Classroom [Link]
A Guidebook For Social Media in the Classroom
Edutopia
February 27, 2014
The purpose of the Social Media Guidebook that I wrote for Edutopia is fourfold:
To help educators understand why social media writing styles are appropriate for teaching in schools
To help educators understand the difference between using social media and socializing
To help educators understand ways you can use this form of writing without having kids on popular social media sites
To demonstrate using 12 examples of ho...
