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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6 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers
At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks…
Academic Standards: Breaking Whole Things Into Broken Bits
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education In the just-released Math Publisher’s Criteria document on the Common Core Standards, the authors say this about (bad) curricular decision-making: “’Fragmenting the Standards into individual standards, or individual bits of standards…
4 Stages: The Integration Of Technology In Learning
Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways. Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously by-human task or process–grading multiple choice assessments,…
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content
Discovering content is the easy part. Managing it all is the challenge. The gallery below by Shirley Williams is a strong collection of tools to better discover, manage, and share digital content. And with the…
61 Educational Apps For The 21st Century Student
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…
12 Strategies For Critical Assessment
Critics of the U.S. education system have set out to determine which evaluation method produces data that best captures the way students learn and the way they progress toward classroom goals. Since the No Child…
What Kind Of World Are We Preparing Students For?
by Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Most educators can agree that the biggest trend in education today has to do with technology integration. As more and more schools find ways to use technology in the…
10 Dos and Don’ts For Group Work & Student Grouping
By Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Educators have learned much about the benefits of using projects for learning, and collaboration is easily recognized as an important skill for students to build. There are very few…
Social Learning: What To Manage In Learning & What To Leave Alone
Management is a dodgy technology for the 21st century. Daniel Pink’s words, not mine, but it’s true. Management is a construct of industrialization. To be fair, it has a role anywhere: networks, sports team, software,…
Learning To Learn: 7 Dimensions Of Effective Learning
Guy Claxton is professor of education at Bristol University, and author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (1997). Among other concepts, he is interested in how people learn. And so are…
It’s Spring! 5 Simple, Fresh Tools For Edtech
Spring is a time for renewal. Plants pushing through the ground and beautiful buds remind us of the miracles of nature. Students and teachers return to school relaxed and ready to tackle the last few…
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