At TeachThought, we constantly wrestle with two big questions: How do people learn, and how can they do it better in a constantly evolving context? In pursuit, the theme of “21st century learning” often surfaces,…
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Technology has entered society like a massive, happy storm, and left few things unaffected. It was only a generation ago that technology took the form of cordless phones, cable television, and the soul-deleting wizardry of…
30 Flipped Classroom Tools From edshelf
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….
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In most ways, teachers that use technology in the classroom aren’t much different than those that don’t. Any teacher worth their salt assesses, and then revises planned instruction based on data from those assessments. They…
How To Create A Custom Search Engine For Your Students
While many teachers embrace the chaos of digital research (it is the “real world,” after all), for others setting students loose on Google is a recipe for a research project chock-full of Yahoo! Answers and…
Exactly What The Common Core Standards Say About Technology
The Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools in the United States, have now been adopted by 47 of the 50 states in the U.S. This makes them the pre-eminent source of…
The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, And Connectivism
We spend so much time in education trying to make things better. Better policies. Better technology. Better standards. Better curriculum. Better instruction. Better assessment. Better response to assessment data. And too with research, teacher collaboration,…
A Surprising Infographic On Technology In Education
When someone sent me this infographic earlier this week, I took a glance at it, then set it aside in a rush of meetings, research, and, well, daily stuff. But when I took a second…
Dissolving Barriers To Adopting Technology In The Classroom
Dissolving Barriers To Adopting Technology In The Classroom How the Other Half Lives: A Report from the 2013 Highlander Institute Blended Learning Conference by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies & Educational Technology Last weekend, the Second…
The Definition Of Digital Citizenship
As more and more students interact digitally–with content, one another, and various communities–the concept of digital citizenship becomes increasingly important. Which begs the question: what is digital citizenship? Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined…
Education Should Be More Childish
The folly of formal learning is a humbling, melancholy thing. As planners, designers, executors, and general caretakers of public and private education systems, we are tasked with the insurmountable: overcome a child’s natural tendency to…
10 Practical Ideas For Better Project-Based Learning In Your Classroom
By Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Teachers are incorporating more and more projects into their curriculum, allowing for much greater levels of collaboration and responsibility for students at all levels. Project- based learning is a…
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