Guest Blogger

As a special education teacher working with autistic kids, I have spent many hours trying to find iPad apps that would enhance verbal skills, pragmatics, and how to answer the ”wh” questions.

Each day students enter a learning oasis where their primary focus is discovering, developing, and pursuing passions, talents, and interests.

It is a scenario that I just don’t want to believe because it affirms my (our!) worst impressions of public education for the poor in America.

With the start of summer upon us, I decided to have a little fun and compile a top ten list of one of my favorite things, movies.

Following an iPad in Education workshop led by Meg Wilson, I asked an Apple employee to share with me useful materials for follow up.

As school winds down for students, it is a time of reflection for teachers.

What if class was like a game show where the teacher was the host and the students were contestants vying for the coveted prize of knowledge?

Creating a video chat in the classroom is a crucial component of global learning.

This is a special blog post on a collaboration between Jennifer Petras and me.

It seems like suddenly everyone’s talking about education and that’s great, but once hoopla dies down, how do we keep the conversation going? Answer: Twitter

There's been a lot of talk about the appropriateness of the terms Marc Prensky came up with at the turn of the century, Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.

When using technology it is inevitable that one is going to need help.

Students with learning disabilities may have problems with reading, math, reasoning and recall.

The illTwitteracy epidemic that has afflicted many educators can be eradicated with a simple 9-step plan

School prepared me to be good at school but it did not prepare me for life.

Our students need adults to stop being afraid, and stop hiding, so education can get out of the shadows and into the light of the world in which our children live.

We are always looking for tools to help special-needs children learn more effectively, so as to reduce the frustration level felt when they can not be independent or do not understand.