Voices of ADE Asia

Over the course of the next couple of days at my school we are requiring that all students in the 1:1 laptop program permanently change their computer settings. As a school we are going to require that each and every student in the 7th and 8th grade have their Remote Login and Remote Management boxes [...]

Cross-posted on Always Learning One of my first tips for any teacher wishing to authentically embed technology into their classroom experience is always to start small. It’s easier to build on a simple, achievable idea, than it is to trim down an all-consuming tech monstrosity. So, with that in mind, one of our amazing grade [...]

Cross posted on Always Learning Over the last two years I’ve been fortunate to attend quite a few conferences (thanks to my wonderfully supportive admin at ISB). One of the things I’ve noticed at these conferences is that the attendees seem to be almost the same group of people over and over again, which I [...]

Cross posted on Always Learning Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending, and presenting at, the Apple Global Leadership Summit in Hong Kong. I knew it was going to be great after presenting at the Think Ahead Roadshow here in Bangkok in February, but I don’t think I realized just how great it was [...]

After months of planning, the Shanghai Student Film Festival proved to be one of the most rewarding experiences of this teacher’s career. Why? The number of students from international schools across Shanghai and across the world that were able to participate and be a part of this event were inspiring to me. Elementary students, middle [...]

Looking for something to get students excited about writing creative stories? Try this one – Spore’s Creature Creator which is available here for free http://www.spore.com/ In an attempt to get Grade 5 students excited about story writing, I introduced them to this Creature Creator. Students can very easily create any creature of their imagination with this program.

cross posted on http://www.digitallynaive.blogspot.com/   Setting goals at the start of the school year is never easy; as a Gr. 6 Humanities team my colleagues and I knew that during the year we would like to “trial” Google Docs for a grade wide assessment. It seemed the logical step, our tech department was investigating the possible move [...]

Cross posted on Always Learning Three of our wonderful grade 5 classrooms (Chrissy, Robin and Ali) have been collaborating all year on a Reader’s and Writer’s workshop project with 4 other schools around the world. We initially made the connection because we were looking for a meaningful, year-long, collaboration based on our curricular focus for [...]

As we move into full swing for our 1:1 planning at my school, we find ourselves in the position of celebrating and over-communicating about what we’ve been able to achieve with a laptop cart program. I decided to use prezi as it’s like a Keynote, but it’s much more dynamic to share those big picture [...]

Providing professional development (PD) is one of the critical actions needed in order to transform our schools toward engaging, relevant, and authentic 21st century learning environments. Faculty and staff at all levels of schools need to provide, encourage, and attend PD opportunities of different types whenever they arise and fit their schedule. At the same [...]