Memorable learning events. That's it. That's the whole goal. That's what teachers consider the Holy Grail. That's what we work so hard to achieve in classrooms with our students. Because if learning is memorable, then it's fulfilling both educational requirements; simultaneously increasing and retaining the capacity of the learner. Once you've mastered the memorability, only then you can begin to measure, evaluate, assess and forward plan. There are so many ways to make learn

Using Twitter for many educators who have already cultivated a personal learning network (PLN) is pretty much second nature. Finding and sharing exciting educational content doesn't get much easier than tweeting it to your followers. But as I've mentioned in a previous post, the gap between teachers who embrace technology and those who are reluctant is becoming quite pronounced and it seems to be widening exponentially. This short video is of Alec Couros, an EdTech Professor

I sat in a post-grad course yesterday full of other teachers from kindergarten to senior school, talking and listening to their ideas and issues in the context of our topic. And I was totally floored by one teacher in particular. I am rarely speechless and I like to think I'm a fairly calm and tolerant type of person (I can hear my husband sniggering somewhere) but this teacher had me completely shocked and for a moment I couldn't speak. It went something like this; "I hate i