Posts by Adam Renfro
Hacking Your Learning Path
To help students hack their learning paths, we will need to help them build a learning infrastructure and teach them how to manage their own learning.
Host a BYOOER Party! (15 Steps for an OER Launch)
The only science textbooks that we have in our schools that do not list Pluto as a planet are the ones printed before 1930.
Chem Cash: The Classroom Marketplace
Student projects are typically made up of digital “artifacts” such as images, video clips, audio clips, regular text-type paragraphs, PowerPoint slides, and so on. Why not break out those individual artifacts and share them with other students who are working on the same project to make the work a collaborative effort?
Teching Out the Novice Writers
Most software editing apps are fraught with "feature creep," which become major distractions during the writing process.
Going Hollywood in the Classroom
In the Hollywood Model, someone has a vision for a project, a team is hired, work continues until the project is complete, and then everyone moves on to other projects. Technology is often the new workplace in the Hollywood Model. Managers function like movie directors with their talent being digital stars. The big question is, can we emulate this in the classroom?
Trending Reasons to Teach Social Media in Schools
Before kids wreck LinkedIn with their adolescent online social behaviors, let’s see if we can deliver some outstanding digital citizens to this medium.
LinkedIn at 14
Ultimately, a portfolio system should showcase a person's work and that showcasing should in turn help that person advance and achieve his or her goals. If that's the case, why not LinkedIn for students?
Start a Life Hacker Club at Your School
The life hacker club isn’t about getting students to do what we want them to do. It’s about us facilitating their dreams.
iAnnotate – Disrupting the Sound of Silence
Currently, over one million people worldwide use iAnnotate to read, edit and share documents on the go. This includes nearly 300,000 students and teachers who rely on iAnnotate in the classroom.
How to Learn ANYTHING in a Year
Using this process, we can turn that worn-out derogatory teacher put-down on its head. Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who do AND teach, Jedi.