We made it to day 90, the half-way point for the 180-day standard curriculum maps. Following the Texas standards and Common Core, which mostly overlap,…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: teaching
Watching our daughters type for their virtual learning exercises pains me. Our daughters need to learn to type, properly. After two or three years of…
Homeschooling requires a lot of energy. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted. Working as a college instructor and on other projects, along with homeschooling both daughters, leaves me…
Grade-level expectations and academic achievement took a backseat to “treading water” after March 13, 2020, according to my colleagues in K12. It was hard enough…
During the summers, we maintain “summer enrichment” activities for our daughters. With schooling forced online in March 2020, we’ve done all we can to simply…
We’re officially a homeschooling household. We notified the school district, in writing and via email, and we enrolled in a homeschooling curriculum. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Testing designs, testing software, testing documents. We need to teach students that testing is part of all product development. Instead, we focus on details that…
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
Over on Slashdot, the following question has 165 comments in under ten hours: Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? – Slashdot Once again, we…
Some texts either specifically or indirectly on the history of education and education theory (pedagogy) that have influenced me. The list is exported from my…