Robin Young on February 8th, 2010

Want to make a difference in your classroom? Let your students know how they are doing! The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. [Hattie, 1992] According to Robert Marzano’s Classroom Instruction that Works -providing feedback to students can be the single most important change you make in your classroom.  Research shows that: Feedback [...]

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Robin Young on December 15th, 2009

I recently polled my staff on various technology training topics.   Surprisingly the most requested training was on Skype and webcams.  What is the hook with Skype and how can it be used in education? I started putting together a wikipage on the ins and outs of Skype and uses.  I can see how this [...]

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