by Heather MacCorkle | Feb 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thinking differently can make it so.Usually, my blog posts address educational topics immediately. This post will be different. Just as we teachers have found our personal and professional lives blended out of necessity while we teach from home, my blog post today...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jan 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the evening of January 6, 2021, teachers around the country were asking each other that question.On January 6, 2021, I was working with a student during office hours when my husband came into the dining room to tell me that people had stormed the U.S. Capitol. My...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jan 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Repurposing a famous line from Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” to highlight a positive aspect of education.pexels.comFrom Veggies to MeatIn my last post for Medium, I wrote about ed-tech “veggies.” That was one of my favorite posts to write. If the resources...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jan 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
Recipes for Ed Tech “veggies” I cannot live without.It’s amazing how we adapt to change. First, we resist, deny, work around, and try the old chestnut: “If it’s not broken, why fix it?” Then, we are pulled into the change vortex, and we express frustration, but...
by Heather MacCorkle | Dec 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Semester One of 2020–2021 is either over or almost over. How are you feeling?Image Credit: PixabayBack in September, I created a post asking when we would get used to this new normal. When I wrote it, I thought that surely, by December, our new routines would no...
