Added by Peter Eckstein on May 31, 2011 at 6:01pm — No Comments
I love VoiceThread. It’s a great platform that allows students to collaborate and create something akin to a pod/video cast. I learned about it this past fall and began utilizing it first with my congregational school’s 5th grade class. Our first foray was into tweeting t’fillot - rewriting Ahavat Olam. Each student typed a personal 140-character interpretation and then recorded it on the VoiceThread platform. Then all the…
ContinueAdded by Peter Eckstein on May 26, 2011 at 4:18pm — No Comments
The Twitter Trap is a NY Times piece I just finished reading. In it, the author Bill Keller bemoans the state of the 21st century mind. He looks back at the days of yore, and what he describes as a “colossal example of what we trade for progress”. Until the creation of the printing press, people remembered things. They were adept in memorization. Once the printed page became mass-produced, this skill fell by…
ContinueAdded by Peter Eckstein on May 22, 2011 at 10:23am — 1 Comment
It’s the last week of religious school at my synagogue. Around this time I usually ask my 7th graders to reflect on their Hebrew school experience; having them write a couple of paragraphs about what Judaism means to them. We then include what they wrote in a brochure that we distribute to the congregation at a Friday night service that honors them.
By the beginning of May, getting these 12-13 year olds to think about this is like pulling teeth. They’re tired. The…
Added by Peter Eckstein on May 13, 2011 at 2:23pm — 1 Comment
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