When I am at a conference and a little burned out and don’t want to get stuck in a session for an hour, I head on over to the poster sessions. Poster sessions are a collection of specific projects grouped together in one area. You walk through the table and displays to see what interests you.

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Topics: share, students, technology integration, teachers

Science education, today, focuses more on students than teachers. With the emphasis on the learner, we see that learning is an active process. From this perspective, learning outcomes do not necessarily depend on what the teacher presents. Rather, they are determined and valued based on the types of questions students are asking from the information they encounter and perceive.

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Topics: creativity, understanding, constructivism, teachers, science

Last week a good friend let me know that Pics4Learning.com was included in Hidden Webtools: 11 for 2011, a new eBook by Simple K12. I was thrilled to see that someone else sees Pics4Learning as valuable as we do.

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Topics: students, teachers, pics4learning.com, copyright-friendly, free images for education