GingerSnapz!

Listen in as Ginger offers her take on reforming education. Highlighted topics include Project Based Learning, natural-use tech tools, and engaging all students in mapping their futures. Take a listen! Ginger simply SNAPS!

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Tool Lust? heck yah!

This podcast is a bit of a deviation from the normal format for GingerSnapz! It is in direct response to the attitude she's seen recently displayed by some in the edublogga'sphere. This attitude seems to be snarky disdain for those teachers and educators who may be showing a bit "too much excitement" for the tool of the week. Ginger offers her snappy opinion toward those who often serve as bellwethers for the 'sphere. Please DO leave a comment on this one!

Jun 21, 2008•2 min

Grading, Assessing, and Underachievement, Under-Engagement

During the first 4 minutes of this episode, Ginger muses about a conference she's about to attend (http://essdack.org/ttt/), hosted by ESSDACK (http://essdack.org/), the company that runs Turning Point Learning Center. She also considers the beauty of the Flint Hills and the destruction of the June 11, 2008 tornado that hit Chapman and Manhattan, KS the night before. IF you have an interest in a more personal "snap" from Ginger, listen to the first of the podcast. However, at about 4 minutes, sh...

Jun 16, 2008•12 min

UnConferencing--Stop Lecturing at people, telling them to change their ways!

Listen in as Ginger reflects on the iConnect iLearn (un)conference that has been a catalyst in demonstrating how education should be, not only for students, but also professionals. How many times have you sat through a powerpoint from some big-wig telling you to change your delivery model? How many times have they "spiced up" their presentation by having you do some silly little activity that "illustrates" what a student would be doing?! Bah! The iConnect Conference has been a proving ground not...

Jun 13, 2008•7 min

Preparing Unprepared Preservice Teachers

This is an interview I held with Julie Rhodes last October at the annual conference of the Kansas Association for Gifted, Talented, and Creative. Julie and I took some of our Master's classes together and our paths have begun to widen. She's now teaching pre-service teachers at Cowley County; let's see what she has to say about these students' tech readiness to teach our future generation.

Mar 09, 2008•13 min

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