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: Technology
Slavery Footprint
Activity Take the survey individually (the last “none-question” require sensitivity). Note the number of slaves your lifestyle requires. Headline: Opinion / Editorial Write a headline that best captures your opinions after calculating your slavery footprint. or use this prompt … Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Society, Current Events, Interactive Web site, Survey, Technology
Tagged Slavery
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Find What’s Funny: Texting Driver
Claim-Support-Question Find things the cartoonist has done to make this funny and to get a point across. Identify support for your claim. Ask a question related to your own use of technology.
Twitter to Flutter!!!!!!!
How did Flutter evolve? What is an advantage of Flutter over Twitter? What is the discussion really about? Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask a question related to your claim
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
Posted in Culture & Society, Featured, Geography, Technology
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Combine Harvester
Cluster what You See Draw or use clustering software What’s the main idea or feeling? Put it in the center. Work as a class to brainstorm as much as you can about the movie. Group or connect any of the … Continue reading
Posted in Analyze This!, Technology
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Whose Future?
In 1994, the Digital Corporation produced this sexy preview of what the Web had to offer the world. They titled it “VisionShift.” Less than fifteen years later, look how this “Web” has evolved into a phone platform with personalized, location-based … Continue reading
Twitter Symptoms
Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask a question related to your claim
Touch Technology
What will students be using in 5 years? Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask a question related to your claim
Robotics – Honda Ad
Is technology like robotics good as suggested by this ad? Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask a question related to your claim
Posted in Advertizing, Culture & Society, Science, Technology, Video
Tagged Robotics
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Youtube Video Contest
YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video What is this video really saying about people and YouTube? Do you agree ot disagree? Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask a question related to … Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Society, Funny, Technology, Video, Visual Arts
Tagged satire, The Onion, YouTube
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