Wayfinder Learning Lab – Stephen Taylor

Ed Tech

  • My Top #EdTech in 2018

    This year I jumped the Great Firewall and landed in China, in a new life and new role as High School Learning & Technology Coach. It has been a great learning experience so far, and as a techy learning nerd,… Continue reading

  • Connecting ISTE NETS & IB ATL Skills

    Back in 2016-17, I worked with a group on a project to connect the IB ATL Skills to the ISTE Standards for Students and AASL Standards, to generate our own school’s Instructional Technology & Information Literacy (ITIL) Standards. CA is… Continue reading

  • Using Tweetdeck to Curate a Twitter PLN

    Twitter is an amazing tool for building a PLN (personal learning network), but as you follow more accounts the main stream can be too fast/distracting to follow, and dipping in at random times is inefficient. Tweetdeck is ideal for curating… Continue reading

  • Bold Moves for Schools

    This is a quick-and-dirty review of a book that ticks all the boxes for a curriculum nerd like me: Bold Moves for Schools, by Heidi Hayes Jacobs & Marie Alcock, from the ASCD (2017, 207 pages). It’s a practical and comprehensive, yet… Continue reading

  • Webb’s DOK4 & Transfer

    I recently took part in a fabulous Bold Moves Curriculum Mapping Bootcamp, by Dr. Marie Alcock at ISKL. I was there to think about next steps for curriculum planning at CA, and it was a great opportunity to pick the… Continue reading

  • Google Certified Educator

    Today I took the Google Certified Educator (Level 1) test for a few reasons: To check my own competence in Google Apps for Education basics. To see how long it would take, with an eye on how we might support… Continue reading

  • PaperPile: Managing Research & References in GoogleDocs

    As anyone involved in studying (or a job that requires looking up a lot of research) knows, managing citations and remembering sources is a challenge. This is doubly difficult when you’re balancing it with full-time work and use the same… Continue reading

  • Ready, Steady, Flow: #GAFESummit Presentation

    My breakout session at the recent #GAFESummit held at our school. How can we use the tech we have to do the high-impact stuff well and efficiently… so that we can use the tech less and have more fun with… Continue reading

  • “This will revolutionize education.”

    Note (2018): If my inbox (edumarketing fluff) or the internet (hyperbole) are anything to go by, this video is still as relevant as when Derek posted it 4 years ago. Not a lot more recent, but still memerific, here’s another… Continue reading

  • Hattie TEDx Talk: Why are so many schools & teachers successful?

    This is worth sharing as a neat overview of Hattie’s research and the learning impacts. With Visible Learning as the basis for our Teacher Learning Communities at CA, it makes for a timely resource. Continue reading

  • Using personal GoogleSites for learning, assessment & feedback in #IBBio

    This is reposted from my i-Biology.net blog. To comment, please go there. ……….o0O0o………. Over the last two years, My IB Bio class have been keeping individual GoogleSites as records and reflections of their learning. Based on this experience and their… Continue reading

  • Tweeching

    https://twitter.com/IBWorldmag/status/261433865992826880 So many of my blog posts on this site, or resources posted to i-Biology, have been stimulated by something first heard about on Twitter, so here goes… Blogging My site (i-Biology.net) is powered by the blogging platform WordPress.com. It… Continue reading

  • Paper.li: A quick review

    A couple of weeks ago I started paying attention to tweets such as: The international-educators Daily is out! http://t.co/PkFp88qY ▸ Top stories today via @neilringrose @toniobarton @mouseflip — Adrienne Michetti (she/her/hers) (@amichetti) July 16, 2012 These paper.li things seemed to… Continue reading

  • My EdTech Choices: More ‘why’, less ‘wow’ (now)

    Another tweet-inspired post. Twitter really is great PD, as long as you’re happy to read the links and think about how they apply to your own practices and thought processes. @FernandaDesani retweeted a link to this article at Education Week… Continue reading

  • “When you have interest, you have education.”

    It’s the last day of the academic year, and the kids have just left the building. I went on Twitter for a quick read and saw this video from GOOD Magazine, after a tweet from Adrienne Michetti (@amichetti). If this reads… Continue reading