Author Archive | Hans Mundahl
High School Class Launches Kickstarter Project
Why are the worlds of work and school so different? That’s a question Justin Joslin asked when he started teaching Introduction to Engineering two years ago. His students, he hoped, could start thinking like engineers if they used the design process to assemble robots, build bridges, or construct water filters. Two years and dozens of [...]
Read MoreI’m applying for my next job (and so are you)
Before anyone reading this article freaks out let me clarify: I’m not actually looking for a new job. But what I am doing, every day, is actively reducing the barriers to you and I working together. Before you and I can collaborate you probably want to know a couple of things: Will he do a [...]
Read More6 Tips for a Better Flipped Classroom
More and more teachers are embracing the flipped classroom as an efficient way to deliver content and personalize the learning experience for students. The two most common mistakes teachers make when starting to flip their classrooms are 1) finding existing videos online that very nearly (but don’t quite) match the content they are trying to [...]
Read MoreiBooks Author (Review & Free Textbook)
iBooks Author is Apple’s new move into the world of eBook self publishing. I recently wrote a textbook for an event we had at New Hampton School and I thought I would share my impressions of the tool. We’ve been able to create ePubs using Pages for some time but iBooks Author takes self publishing [...]
Read MoreStop Taking Pictures of the Whiteboard
Image source. First week of school in iPad class and I’ve just drawn a fantastic diagram of how an iPad works on the whiteboard. It’s beautiful – I even used three different color markers. “Now students,” I intoned, “please copy this diagram into your note taking app.” How clever I was – asking them to [...]
Read More6 Things I Hope Apple Announces on January 19th (Updated)
Apple is inviting the media to a special event at the Gugenheim Museum in New York City on January 19th for, “an education announcement.” Whenever Apple makes this kind of announcement speculation starts running wild about what they might be rolling out. Here is my wish list of what I hope Apple announces on January 19th: [...]
Read More7 Tips for Citing an App in MLA Format
Clay Shirky famously pointed out that the problem in the information landscape today isn’t necessarily that there is too much information but that our filters aren’t any good. Students feel this problem acutely due to their perpetual crunch for time and lack of nuanced Google skills. So where does a responsible student go for reliable information [...]
Read MoreWith great power comes great responsibility…
I have a little bit of street cred with my students: I was involved in handing out their iPads, and more often than not I can help them troubleshoot tech issues. But when the subject of social media comes up it still produces spontaneous eye rolls among the fourteen year olds in my class. It’s [...]
Read MoreHow to Hold a Tweetup (and why you should)
Photo Credit: flickr.com/cosmobc For most federal agencies it’s a huge problem if 700,000 people show up outside their gates. But NASA isn’t like most federal agencies: on a good day the space agency pulls off a spectacular show, conducting science that changes how we see our planet and our universe. But on a bad day nothing much [...]
Read MoreSo you want to use e-textbooks next year?
Tablet computers, advocates say, can reduce pack weight, decrease expenses, and increase student engagement through the use of e-textbooks. But a few months ago I wrote a post called, ‘Where are all the e-textbooks?‘ expressing my frustration at the lack of quality e-textbook solutions. To be honest this was less of a post and more [...]
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