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John D. Ross, Ph.D. As an instructional designer with expertise in educational technology, I use my unique set of skills to help schools, districts, states, and education organizations solve complex instructional problems. My passion is helping educators to use educational technologies to improve school and student achievement. My areas of experience and expertise include:
Find out more about me or visit my portfolio for examples of my work. |
Book of the Month
My new book about online professional devevelopment was selected as Book-of-the-Month for July 2011 by Learning Forward (formerly the National Staff Development Council). I'll be signing copies at the Learning Forward national conference on Tuesday, December 6, and presenting the next morning from 7:45-9:45 a.m. Stop on by! |
Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use is the first textbook that addresses the revised NETS for Teachers. Written with co-authors, Katherine Cennamo and Peg Ertmer.
Published in 2009 by Corwin Press, Transformers: Creative Teachers for the 21st Century by Mary Kim Shreck includes my Technology and the Creative Classroom. Get your copy from Corwin Press or your favorite bookseller.
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All means all...doesn't it? November 30, 2011
When I was a student in public school many moons ago, it was the time of obvious and blatant tracking. Students, parents, and teachers knew full well whether their kids were in the advanced, regular, or basic track of classes. In that situation, all didn’t mean all. There were different expectations for different groups of students. At the time, I didn’t give it much thought, until junior high. While I was a bona fide participant in my district’s elementary school gifted-and-talented program—a status only achieved after taking a paper-and-pencil forced-choice test—my sixth grade teacher was quick to discern that I had other talents that might not have been measured in that test, procrastination being chief among them. But what he recognized as lack of ability was merely my misaligned priorities, with socializing seeming much more important at the time. As a result, I was put into the “regular” English class in the seventh grade. It was like traveling to a different world. |
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