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John C. Schinker

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Life Cycle

23 Feb 202119 Feb 2021
Technology is disposable. One of the challenges of managing technology in schools is the fact that you have to keep buying the same thing over and over again. Every time…
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Teach Less

15 Feb 2021
I taught "Computers 8." I think that's what it actually said on the students' schedules. The precision in the course name betrayed the hand-waving that was happening behind the scenes.…
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Common Language

7 Feb 2021
We want our students to be problem solvers. We want them to use their critical thinking and innovation skills to combine knowledge across disparate domains to find creative solutions to…
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Cheating

30 Jan 2021
"You are permitted to bring one 5x7 inch note card to the exam, with any notes on it that you want." My eleventh grade American History teacher was explaining the…
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Online Watering Holes

17 Jan 2021
I've been thinking about learning spaces recently. The environments in which our students learn are directly related to the kind of learning that happens. Looking at a classroom, you can…
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The Race to Normal

10 Jan 2021
As we work through the tenth month of the pandemic, we're starting to talk about schools returning to normal. I have to be careful here. The school that I work…
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Reflecting on Reflecting

31 Dec 2020
I started this blog experiment 15 years ago. I was looking for a way for my teachers to quickly and easily share information with students. They wanted web sites. We…
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Impossible

27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020
I can't believe how far we've come. To say that 2020 has been challenging is certainly an understatement. We've seen our world upended to an extent that was unfathomable a…
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Introverting the classroom

16 Dec 2020
I'm struggling with the idea that the best place for kids is in school. Maybe it's because my most robust, most meaningful, most memorable learning experiences didn't happen in school.…
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A Merry Little Christmas

6 Dec 2020
I sat on the couch with a glass of wine to watch a Christmas movie. "What are you doing? You don't drink wine," the younger daughter observed. "It's December. I…
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Our Kodak Moment

29 Nov 2020
Steve Sasson had a brilliant idea. He started with a movie camera lens. He added an array of capacitors, a basic processor, and a cassette tape recorder. After hooking up…
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Attendentes Potentia Est

18 Nov 2020
Francis Bacon is said to have coined the phrase "knowledge is power," though it doesn't appear in any of his writings. Thomas Hobbes used the phrase in the mid-1600s, and…

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