Not another expensive paperweight
Chris
EdTech Swami is the pet project of Christopher Rogers, who is a high school English teacher in central New York. The Swami believes that education is not keeping up with a rapidly changing world, and he hopes to do his small part to change that.
Homepage: http://www.edtechswami.com
AIM: crog@mac.com
Posts by Chris
Are You a Teacher Or a Person Who Teaches
Aug 10th
Tweet When I was much younger and had more hair I would go to a little establishment in Saratoga Springs called Café Lena. This was one of those special places where the true artists and truer wannabes would gather for folk songs or poetry readings or student written one-act plays. After putting on a torn flannel shirt and snatching up
Invite a Skeptic to the Reform Symposium
Jul 18th
Tweet All of this social networking is starting to pay off for everyone! For the past month I have been working with some really amazing educators to put together a free summer conference. I have never met any of these amazing people (Shelly Terrell, Jason Bedell, & Kelly Tenkely), yet this was one of the most successful collaborations
Call to Arms on School Reform
Jul 8th
Tweet I felt so strongly about the topic of this week’s (7/6/10) #edchat that I needed two days to collect my thoughts. This week’s #edchat centered around what we as educators can do to move from discussion of educational reform to action. I have been participating in #edchat since November and this is unequivocally the most important
Are Teachers Wasting Their Time Teaching Styles?
Jun 15th
Tweet As I grade a seemingly never ending pile of essays a question continues to pop into my mind. How much time am I wasting teaching students to use the proper formatting style? How much time are they wasting trying to make sure that their essay adheres to this style. How many points are taken off if the style
What Educators Can Learn From John Wooden
Jun 10th
Tweet Following up on my post about Steve Jobs, and given the death of the great John Wooden I thought it was timely to write another post about what we can learn by listening to great thinkers. I never knew a lot about John Wooden when I was young. My dad was always a football guy so that was what
What Educators Can Learn From Steve Jobs
Jun 3rd
Tweet Apple has been in the news a lot lately. They recently surpassed Microsoft in terms of market cap and became the largest American technology company, they sold two million iPads in two months, they lost a valuable prototype and then kicked in the door of the blogger who reported about it. They’ve declared Flash a dead technology
