Posted in Moving The Cheese on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Two weeks ago, a 6th grade science teacher and I worked with his students as they learned about the solar system. On of our first tasks was learning how to modify a search. We googled the phrase “solar system.” On Tuesday noon, the Google search gave 40 million sites. The next day [...]
Posted in Moving The Cheese on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
No, this isn’t an ad for a presidential candidate. It’s a summary of reactions from our curriculum meeting this afternoon. We met to discuss how keyboarding was going to be included in the curriculum….and the technology coordinator and I decided to take that as a diving board into the pool of what we are going [...]
Posted in Moving The Cheese on Apr 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
We all go down the same hole for the cheese. Just like those lab rats, if the cheese is moved, there’s confusion and frustration. Just moving a pile of papers from the kitchen counter to another location causes serious brow furrowing in my household. Let’s face it, it’s easier to do tasks repetitively rather than [...]
