TEACHPAPERLESS
May 11, 2010
ROOM 422
10:25-11:10
1 PD HOUR
NEW
MINDSET
The Paperless Classroom? Reality or
Myth?
Shelly Blake-Plock web interview will help answer that very question.
Supply budget--cut 60%.
Class sizes--predicted to be larger
than in previous years.
Students--engaging more and
more with social networking than
social studies. Now more than
ever may be the time to think
about moving towards a paperless
classroom.
But how? You’ve tried in the
past, but have always run into
issues here and there, and all of a
sudden you are back where you
started. How do you make it
happen this time?
Shelly Blake-Plock, a teacher
of Latin, Art History, and
Western Civilizations from
1
Maryland has dedicated much of
his professional energy to
designing his classroom to be just
that: paperless. With it, he
claims, have come some amazing
results.
Shelly’s work has been
featured in such national
publications as the New York
Times, The Dallas Examiner,
The Baltimore Sun, Education
Week, and Edutopia. He has
presented his experimental
teaching practices all over the
nation to school leaders, students,
and communities. His work
coordinating the efforts of over
1500 teachers worldwide to go
paperless for Earth Day was a
huge success.
Shelly’s use of social media in
his classroom has drawn both
praise and criticism from the
education community, but his
work with his students speaks for
itself. You can find examples of
his projects here, and of Shelly’s
own writing and work at his blog
http://
teachpaperless.blogspot.com.
Join us for a lunchtime
interview with him on Tuesday,
May 11 in Room 422.