In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2, he looked specifically at student-to-student interaction, and the reality…
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16 Learning Strategies To Promote Grit And Delayed Gratification In Students
16 Learning Strategies To Promoting Grit And Delayed Gratification In Students In psychology, intelligence is not the primary predictor of success. It is the ability to persevere in hardship, persist and learn after failure, and…
A 10th Grader Explains How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks
This article was written by Noa Gutow-Ellis, a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas. She’s passionate about all things related to the Arab Spring and 21st Century Education. As an 8th grader, Noa gave a TEDx talk about the…
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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…
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…
5 Basic Tips To Reduce Student Test Anxiety
Tests aren’t going away anytime soon, and as the stakes increase, when the time for tests rolls around everybody in the classroom can get a little edgy. Teachers need all the help they can find…
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…
Examining Blended Learning Models: Student To Student Interactions
In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2 below, Stanley looks specifically at student-to-student interaction,…
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…
What Happens When Students Are Simply Free To Learn?
If you could learn about anything, what would you choose to learn? If you gave this freedom to your students, what would they choose? Last fall, Patti Grayson shared with a few friends and me…
What Teaching Writing In The 21st Century Might Look Like
So I was looking through an old Animal Farm unit of mine when I found some notes I had written that sketch a basic outline for a “writing” unit (i.e., a unit designed primarily to…
The Succint Relationship Between Stress And Play
We talk often about the role of play in learning, and even the conditions necessary for play to occur, so I found this simple diagram by Jessica Hagy over at thisisindexed.com interesting, and wonderfully succinct….
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