by edshelf: Reviews & recommendations of tools for education Jake Duncan is technology integration specialist at Region 6 Education Service Center and actively curates tools for educators on edshelf. He also blogs regularly on technology and education….
5 Mobile Apps To Help Teachers & Students Adapt To The Common Core Standards It’s easier to get where we are going if we are all working off the same map. At least that’s the…
by edshelf: Reviews & recommendations of tools for education Michael Fricano II is a technology coordinator for Mililani Ike Elementary School in the sunny state of Hawaii. With an articulate technology vision, they are constantly researching new…
You teach, which means you need to know what students do and don’t understand. Which means you need to assess. You teach in the 21st century, which means you use the internet and digital tools…
Concept-mapping–or mind-mapping, idea-mapping, or some other variation that makes sense to you–is the practice of demonstrating the relationship between ideas in a map-like form. Concept-mapping allows creators to articulate nuance, context, and interdependence between ideas…
Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including…
by Hope Mulholland, TeachThought Intern One of my most important tasks as a reading teacher is matching students to books that they will love. For struggling readers, that can be more challenging because they don’t…
Edshelf URL Edshelf on twitter Edshelf on facebook Along with Learnist and Pocket, Edshelf is one of our favorite web apps that we discovered in 2012. The idea behind Edshelf is…
The evolution of app searching, cataloging and curation is here. There are hundreds of app review sites, software stores and many other places on the internet where you can search for apps and software applications….
When it comes to classroom teaching, apps are a great way of getting the children engaged and learning at the same time. As well as being a fantastic way to get the kids involved in…
It’s not entirely clear what it means to be a “21st century student.” And in 2013, it’s also not entirely clear what the definition of an “educational app” might be. Just as students are no…
At TeachThought, we often provide lists of digital resources, and many of them are apps. Apps for struggling readers. Apps for struggling writers. Apps for project-based learning. Any while many of these apps are for…
