About Tom
Tom March has been "working the Web" and contributing "Bright Ideas for education" since 1994. It all started with WebQuests and continued from there to include a range of other Web-based teaching formats, tools like Filamentality and Web-and-Flow and an emphasis on quality as seen in BestWebQuests. These days, Tom focuses on supporting systemic change toward 1:1 digital learning. Primarily this means The Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL as main components of "Next Era Ed."Bright Ideas
Core Strategies
- Next Era Ed Overview (pdf)
- The Edge-ucators Way
- Look to Learn
- ClassPortal
- WebQuests & WQ 2.0
CEQ•ALL
- CEQ•ALL Overview
- Research Rationale
- Profiles (pdf)
- Rubric (pdf)
Category Archives: Featured
Highlights – May 2012
Below are a few Look to Learn activities that might suit the students / courses identified below. You do not have to limit yourself to those at your Grade Level / KLA, but these groupings are meant to save you … Continue reading
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Ira Glass on Creative Work
Connect, Extend, Challenge Connect: How are ideas presented related to something you like or are interested in making? Extend: What new ideas did you get that extended or pushed your thinking in new directions? Challenge: What is still challenging or … Continue reading
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Water Buffalo Gift
Background Jazz violinist Robert Thompson was motivated by a blog post to see if he could do something real. This video is his story and that of a family in China and a community around the world. See-Think-Wonder What do … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Gift, Water Buffalo
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Global Rich List
Go to the Global Rich List Web site. Choose a currency (Canadian dollar might be closest to the Australian dollar). Enter the amount you or a friend might earn from a part-time job (for example someone working at a fastfood … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Featured, Interactive Web site, Look to Learn
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Laptop – Global Supply Chain
Here is a map of how the parts of a typical laptop are sourced globally to create what ends up with consumers. View an expanded version? Here’s an image with a more basic description of where parts of it came … Continue reading
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Only 100 People on Earth!
Watch this thought-provoking presentation and consider the following question: How does the presentation make you feel about your own existence in the world? What is it about the presentation that surprises you? How can you make a difference in the … Continue reading
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Tsunami of Waste?
Gyre, 2009 8×11 feet, in three vertical panels Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Interpret This!, The Environment, Visual Arts
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