iPhone apps my Daughter loves

Recently Rylee has taken to playing a memory game on abcya.com, she does however find the multiple button mouse difficult so we were thinking about how cool a touch screen would be. I then remembered a review of some of the toddler games for the iPhone OS and to be fair I was amazed [...]

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

Being a long weekend I have finished a few books and one of the ones I should have blogged about a while ago is “Doing School”. I brought this book from Amazon after having listened to the author on itunesU. The basic premise of the book is that the author followed five successful students [...]

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation

Thanks to Derek for this one.

As I sat in a class this morning watching students labour over a task that only a few seemed genuinely engaged in, the teacher and I discussed what their motivation was for the task. Essentially the only reason they were doing anything in this lesson was to get the grade. [...]

Learning to change

I always love finding new videos that just say how I feel so thanks to Rich White I found this one.