By Bob Kirby - Snowshoes, GPS receivers and a geocaching treasure hunt. We sure didn’t do anything like that during P.E. on snowy days when I was in elementary school. But that’s exactly what happens these days at East Kingston Elementary in New Hampshire.
While I found this instructional approach intriguing (see “From the Get-Go”), it prompted [...]

After two sixth-grade teachers at Chaparral Elementary pooled their funds to buy a document camera in 2006, the technology began spreading swiftly throughout California’s Chino Valley Unified School District.
“Other teachers quickly discovered that working with projected images of such things as math problems allowed them to keep an eye on their students,” recalls Karyn Keck, [...]

In a recent survey, a majority of students said that while their science and math teachers seem knowledgeable and keep class interesting, they aren’t teaching about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career options. High school students also said they don’t believe STEM knowledge is integral to getting a good job, which doesn’t bode well [...]

A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator’s version. According to TeacherTube’s founders, “We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.”
To read more about TeacherTube, please visit Edutopia.org
Also, check out pcsedu on TeacherTube for [...]

“My name is Macbeth / I’m the Thane of Glamis. / I might not be the king / but I’m still hella famous.”
Terry, a student at Toronto’s York Mills Collegiate Institute, wrote that rap for his tenth-grade English class as part of a music video depicting William Shakespeare’s famous play Macbeth. “We got 100 percent on it!” [...]

There is a special section of iTunes (called iTunes U) where schools can create custom iTunes Pages where they upload podcasts and videos that give the public a look into that school’s culture. Some examples from Carnegie Mellon’s iTunes U Page include commencement speeches, an interview with Bill Gates, inspiring podcasts from professors, and a [...]

Podcast of Little Red Riding Hood
Ms. Comstock’s 5th period English 10 Class at the Boise Language Academy is using the PCS Digital Podcasting Lab to assist them in learning English.
Listen to their recording of their retelling of Little Red Riding Hood as performed over the loudspeaker for the entire school.

“The use of this [...]