Knowclue Kidd turns 18 years old! I had no clue what adventures laid ahead of me, or just how far they would take me when I created an...

Jim Taylor and I took a team of five students from Newlands Intermediate to participate in the 2024 AI for the Environment Hackathon. The...

HackMini is a hackathon model I designed specifically for intermediate students. It is scaled to replicate a hackathon at a...

Written in 2011, "Game to Learn" was my first attempt to explain my shift in thinking - The Elisabeth Morrow School AppleTree In the...

Students' massive protest over gun violence This morning, I woke to the news of student walkouts all over the world . Follow the learning...

I came across this TED talk last month. It's a story I cannot get out of my head. " Meet Sharon Terry , a former college chaplain and...

While it may seem that I have dropped off the planet since my last post, I am still here in New Zealand. In 2015, I quit a job that I had...

Last year, while visiting New Zealand, a dream was born to teach in a Modern Learning Environment (MLE) school. Peggy Sheehy and I...

Trust has been on my mind a lot lately and what it means to trust. I have witnessed several friends unexpectedly lose jobs over the past...

Time to tackle the two most controversial questions that came out of our discussions at the Minecraft Education Summit in LA. Q4: Is the...

Slowly working my way through the questions raised at #MinecraftLA, but I’ve been putting off answering this query: Q3: Is there a...

After a year of plotting – with the AMAZING 3D developer, Damon Hernandez | teaming up with the “We Can Do It” Bergen Makerspace AND...

One of the questions raised at #MinecraftLA Summit was: Q2: When does a game cease to be a game and becomes a tool? Vu Bui, COO of...

Many people speculate that Minecraft will change education. Perhaps. For me, the bigger question is: Will Minecraft change education, or...

I recently had the opportunity to attend the first Minecraft Education Summit sponsored by Microsoft FuseLabs and Connected Camps. A...

In my last post, Obsession with Assessment, I confessed that I once blurted out, “I don’t give a shit about assessment. I’m a teacher, I...

My last post, Got Map, was quite long as I grappled with the notion of how the “narrative of school” keeps us stuck. I’m sure this will...

In education, the map we follow in the United States is based on a very long standing narrative of “what school looks like”. This...

If I wake up early on a weekday, I love to pop onto Twitter and follow the #BFC530 15 min “spark” chat. This is one of the most...

Maori proverb: He aha te mea nui? He tangata. He tangata. He tangata. Translation: What is the most important thing? It is the people. ...