“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” – Thomas Jefferson Half of our district received training from Apple this summer on the concept of Challenge Based Learning. While many educators are quickly overwhelmed by Apple’s take on the latest instructional trend of student-centered learning sweeping the United States, many...

I’ve been hooked on a new podcast recently, and it’s one that I highly recommend, especially because it will take no more than 60 seconds of your time. After reformatting my mp3 player last month and clearing out my podcast subscriptions (something I do occasionally when enough of my regular podcasts get stale), I hopped onto Podcast Ready and hit up iTunes U to see what was new out there. Most of the content I find out there in...

I’ve seen the flurry of election related blog posts in the last two months, and I’ve read about some exciting ways to use the Internet in your classroom to teach election politics in an engaging way, but what happens after election day? When all of the campaign messages go off the air, the frenzy and energy that students bring into the classroom about the election is gone, and we rediscover what life was like 18 or so months...