As an art teacher and professional muralist, I get a lot of requests to paint murals in my schools. I absolutely love painting murals, especially when I can involve students in the process. Buy some paint, give me a wall, and I am totally happy to turn your boring wall into a work of art. Sadly, […]
Art, Technology, Pedagogy
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Net Neutrality Means Access for All
If you feel you need to ban technology, you probably need DigCit, instead.
Recently, Susan Dynarski wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about why she bans laptops in her lectures and meetings. Her writing inspired very strong responses on both sides of the issue, and it makes sense. Anyone who has ever tried to teach a room full of students with technology has fought this battle. […]
Digital Citizenship
Most people who know me are surprised that I’m passionate about technology in education. Sure, I grew up as an 80’s kid, when computers were first gaining importance in education. I had my own computer at home and taught myself to code in BASIC, just for fun. I played “Oregon Trail” and “Zork” at school […]
Is blended learning a good fit for my students?
Blended Learning Research from Rebecca Recco on Vimeo.
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Artwork by Maya Hayuk BHAG — My big, hairy, audacious goal is that Cindy Avitia High School will take the tools they’re already using (Google Classroom, Google Drive, Google Slides, etc…) to create a learning environment that empowers students by putting them in charge of their own learning. AUDIENCE — Cindy Avitia High School […]
Student-Powered Learning : An Alternative PL Session
“I don’t even get why the kids have devices.” “Yeah, maybe they’re useful for some things, but we made it all the way through school without having them, so I’m sure these kids will be perfectly capable of doing work without them.” “If I had a dollar for every time a kid was supposed to […]
My Online Art Program
In a typical high school art classroom, students create individual works of art that are as unique as the students, themselves. Students develop their own artistic styles as they learn each media and find inspiration in the artists they study. Students work at their own pace, completing their works of art as they meet with […]
Sea Change
This week, I started teaching in my new school. For those of you just joining this blog, in May, I accepted a position as Founding Art Teacher at Cindy Avitia High School in San José, California. It has been an exciting change, but also a nervewracking one, as I move back to teaching High School after […]
My Online Course
It’s been a busy summer! Last week, my husband and I packed up a U-Haul and moved from West Virginia to California — literally one week ago. We’ve been unpacking our house one box at a time while attending a super-intense professional development for our new school district. At the same time, I am attending […]