Sean Thompson
About me…
Sean is an educational technology specialist at Sacred Heart International School in Tokyo. He travels extensively across southeast Asia speaking, presenting and participating in discussions regarding the effective integration of technology in an educational setting.
In 2014 he partnered up with DEEP Learning to support the team with the development, promotion and execution of professional development conferences for teachers worldwide.
Sean is also an Apple Distinguished Educator, an International Baccalaureate Educator Network Workshop Leader , a Google education Trainer and a Certified Google Educator available for professional development at your school.
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Integrating Synergy
Our Grade Five class just wrapped up a unit on Advertising & Media. As the technology integration specialist my role was to support students in the creation of a collaborative website demonstrating their conceptual understanding of the Central Idea as … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Digital Learning, IB, Literacy, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing, Project Based Learning, PYP, Visual Literacy
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, communication, create, digital age, digital footprint, Digital responsibility, education, future, higher order, ICT, integrate, integration, making connections, new thinking, project based learning, promotion, publishing, self-directed learning, share, sharing, skills, Tech, technology, Twitter
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The Role of ICT in the PYP: Collaborate to Integrate
I just finished delivering this workshop at the regional IB event held at Canadian International School, Hong Kong, an expansive and well-connected campus full of enthusiastic and dedicated educators from September 13-15, 2013. I was blessed with 23 teachers interested … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Learning, IB, Project Based Learning, PYP
Tagged 21st century, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, digital age, education, future, higher order, ICT, integrate, integration, making connections, new thinking, skills, Tech, technology
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How to Become an Apple Distinguished Educator (or ADE)
This is a subject of much controversy, surrounded by secrecy and shrouded in darkness. Alright, that isn’t exactly true and more than a bit of an overstatement. It has a nice ring to it though. Preamble I had the privilege of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Learning, Producing, Publishing, Sharing
Tagged 21st century, ADE, Apple, Apple Distinguished Educator, become, classroom, education, innovate, innovative, sharing, Tech, technology
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Real Communication: Animated Infographics
If you want something to be remembered you have to frame it in a narrative. Visual Literacy, which can be broken into further subsets like infographics and digital storytelling, encompasses a skill set of increasing importance in a world where information grows … Continue reading
Posted in Literacy, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing, Project Based Learning, Remix, Visual Literacy
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, communication, copyright, create, digital, digital age, education, fair usage, ICT, integrate, integration, publishing, sharing, skills, Tech, technology
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Interested in Serious EdTech Professional Development?
This blog post will cover many topics. I wear many hats. In brief, I will discuss how I have recently employed technology: as a homeroom teacher an ICT specialist a school promoter a teacher trainer an MYP Technology teacher I … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Literacy, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing, Project Based Learning
Tagged 21st century, acceptable usage, Application, class, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, communication, copyright, create, digital, digital age, digital footprint, Digital responsibility, education, fair usage, flat, future, global, ICT, integrate, integration, making connections, NETS, new thinking, open source, Privacy, project based learning, publishing, responsibility, self-directed learning, share, sharing, skills, Tech, technology
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I’m Flipping OUT!
No doubt there are those out there who would argue there is only one “true way” to define a flipped classroom effort. To those of you (and you know who you are) who find offense at what I am about … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Learning, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, communication, create, digital, digital age, Digital responsibility, education, future, ICT, integrate, integration, making connections, responsibility, self-directed learning, skills, Tech, technology
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Promoting the Learner Profile @Your School
I was going to call this blog post, Create a Student Content Generated Learner Profile Website for Your School But that sounds way academic and I want people to actually read this. If you are a PYP, MYP, DP (or … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Learning, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, communication, create, digital, digital age, education, global, ICT, integrate, integration, NETS, new thinking, promotion, publishing, self-directed learning, share, sharing, skills, Tech, technology
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Web Design Made Easier: From the Elementary Classroom to the White House
I say easier because, no matter how easy the process of web creation can be made, the creation of an effective, attractive, user-friendly design that meets a high standard of functionality will always take time. As an ICT Specialist in … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Digital Learning, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, communication, create, digital, digital age, education, future, global, ICT, integrate, integration, making connections, new thinking, philosophy, promotion, publishing, self-directed learning, share, sharing, skills, Tech, technology
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Creative Sharing
I love making and sharing things with digital media. I have long pontificated about the new wondrous capacity to share with potentially global audiences through the use of the internet here and elsewhere so will spare you this soap box … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Learning, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, create, digital, digital age, digital-age learning, education, global, ICT, integrate, integration, IT, learning, new thinking, philosophy, school, share, sharing, teaching, tech. technology
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Back to the Future (again): Return of the Master
As a former student of political science, one of the biggest lessons I derived from my studies is what I call the pattern of the pendulum. The swing from right (conservatism) to left (liberalism). “Forward” thinking to “back to basics.” … Continue reading
