Has Twitter become a virtual staff room for teachers everywhere? #teacherbookclub is a monthly online discussion of books relevant to today’s educator. Past guest authors have been Bill and Ochan Powell, George Couros, Angela Maiers, and John Spencer. This weekend #teacherbookclub discussed a multi-touch free book focused on visual note taking. This book was co-authored…
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Learning to Manage Distractions
One of parents’ biggest concerns around student use of technology is that of distractions. The same tool we use to create and learn, can be used to entertain and derail productivity. So what are our options, as teachers? As parents? We could create elaborate structures of control (blocking certain websites, turning off wifi etc), but that…