Studio in Computing for Learning

The need to help communities to understand the importance of screen time, robotics and computer science in school. https://elearningindustry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ed0b0c31c412f7d67bd39119503bb394.jpg Technology continues to grow and change with every minute of every day.  Students in today’s world are craving to have these new advancements, apps, techniques, etc implemented into their learning on a daily basis.  It is the world they are growing up in.  Educators are fully aware of this.  Teachers committed to and energized by the many different ways to bring technology into the classrooms try to stay on top of all the latest and greatest ways to inspire students to grow into creative, problem solving adults.  However, more and more, local communities fail to understand the importance of maintaining the investment of funds into various devices and peripheral units.  The backlash of too much screen-time comes when a state releases school ass...

Academic Integrity Infographic Photo Credit: Giulia Forsythe, Flickr Identifying the Issue Technology is a pervasive force in our world today, and one that has become the bane of many a teacher’s existence. Although the potential for technology to augment and boost educational materials is monumental, the tendency for students to commit acts of academic dishonesty, either purposely or by accident, is not something that teachers can afford to ignore. As someone who considers myself to be very tech-savvy, I still find myself spending a great deal of time identifying and trying to put a stop to various types of electronic cheating. I believe that without guidance from their teachers, today’s teenagers have a natural tendency to lean toward taking the path of least resistance, but that much of the time they don’t actually know what constitutes cheating. I decided to research this topic because I am interested in what other teachers have discovered are the best ways to help our stude...

COACHING PEDAGOGICAL CHANGE By Paul Wellman INTRODUCTION https://www.pinterest.com/pin/474707616946010622/ The late, great UCLA basketball coach John Wooden once noted, “failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be;” In a more severe vein, Marine Corps barracks are littered of images of “Complacency Kills” written over each and every doorway. These expressions and everything in between embrace change and refinement as a way to grow and advance, yet it seems a global epidemic of resistance to change exists as it pertains to education and online teaching, stifling the multitude of research, effort, and resources that strive for advancement: (Germany’s educational resistance to Standards Based Learning is just one example) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13632434.2013.793494?needAccess=true As such, this blog attempts to highlight personal and cultural factors that build up educator resistance to pedagogical change while simultaneously seeking to pro...