At the end of the past school year, I shared my experience “un-schooling” my classroom and giving a final on Twitter (You can read all about that here). Over the summer, I worked with my wonderful colleagues Rabbi Daniel Rosen and Mrs. Meryl Feldblum to create a project-based learning curriculum for The Frisch School‘s HonorsRead more
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Professional development: your schedule, your interest, your bed (or wherever else you’d like…) I am a huge proponent of using Twitter for your own professional development. When I say that to my colleagues they usually answer with “I don’t have time for Twitter” or “why would anyone care what I eat for lunch?” Allow me to debunkRead more
The last three years in my position as Head of the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School, a K-8 Schechter Network Day School of nearly 130 students located in Jacksonville, Florida, has overlapped with an explosion of interest in 21st century learning and educational technology. In large ways, our school has been shaped by the worksRead more
Reposted with thanks to Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky World ORT Naomi Prawer International Seminar for Digital Technology in Jewish Education, Johannesburg, South Africa One of the most important things to realize about educational technology is that the education must always drive the technology and not the technology driving the education. I love bells and whistles as muchRead more
Posted with kind permission from Shelley Wright I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. Hear me out. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifiesRead more
So why was I so interested in being part of a gathering of young South African innovators? In September last year a good friend of ours, Guy Lieberman met Seth Cohen from the Schusterman Foundation at a ROI gathering for young innovators. A discussion around bringing young Jewish Innovators together was born. Why was itRead more
