This post by Shelley Wright I recently read suggests flipping Bloom's Taxonomy to begin with 'creating' and working backwards, imitating a flipped classroom model. 

http://plpnetwork.com/2012/05/15/flipping-blooms-taxonomy/

I was excited when I read Wright's blog post and thought it has major potential to 'flip' education in the Jewish studies classroom as well. What if students went straight to…

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I love using Lino boards (www.linoit.com) and my students have given great feedback about their enjoyment in using it. I set up the Lino Board ahead of time, posting photos, videos and questions ahead of time. Students are then requested to post their…

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Recently I was sitting around with a few of my friends, and threw out the question to them, “what do you think about iPads being used in education?” My friends are not teachers, however without any background in teaching, they all had a lot of interesting things to say. One of my friends told me that in speech school she has learned a lot about how iPads are being used in special education, such as for voice boards.

            There is an interesting app for iPads called Proloquo2Go.…

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The philosophy in my middle school where i serve as the menahel , is "everything is a learning opportunity". So when it comes to technology and specifically ipads the approach is to teach and to show students the potential of how this field can help them as students. My school has not yet decided to invest in ipads, yet as they become more and more popular both in society and in the knapsacks of our students it is incumbent on the school to teach the students how they can be used in the… Continue