Random Educations Questions for the Week

How can you determine the difference between sensory regulation and laziness in older kids?
When do you give up on a kid?
How can we appropriately support and refresh teachers who give their all every day?
When do you balance the needs of the child with the curriculum dictates?
What is the balance between neurodevelopment, social development, memory development and curriculum?
Which is truly the goal of a good education: learning to learn or learning specific content?
How do you measure learning to learn?

Incorporating Social Networking into Literature Study

Here's my random project idea of the week!

Project for Studying Biography (or character study)at any school age level:
what would social networking for your person or character look like?

If your person was on Facebook or MySpace:

• Who would be on his/her friends' list?
• What might be posted on his/her wall?
• What causes might she/he be a fan of?
• What would their profile information look like?

You can provide a template with specific requirements or have them design their own visual (not set up a bogus account!).

For older students, you could create a Ning network for your class and within that network, students could create homepages and blogs for specific characters in a novel.

The ideas become endless and contextualized for the 21st Century learner!!! Oooh, wish I had my own class again now! :)