One of the most remarkable aspects of modern education is the great diversity of today’s classroom. Thanks to mainstreaming and inclusion policies, students of all abilities study in all classrooms from kindergarten through college, even…
Teaching
10 Pros And Cons Of Looping In Education
by Jennifer Rita Nichols, @JennritaEdu In many schools, looping has been integrated as a regular procedure. It has become normal for students to spend more than one year with the same teachers. Of course, as…
Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension
by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, Authentic Education Common Core Assessment: When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the general discussions taking…
What Teachers Really Want–And Need
What Teachers Really Want And Need by Susan Lucille Davis first appeared on gettingsmart.com What Teachers Really Want–And Need “You always have permission to use whatever tools you need to teach my daughter. Feel free to let her…
7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology
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…
5 Less Formal Alternatives To Homework Over Summer Break
How many days until your summer break begins? I can tell you, to the minute, without looking. (And this doesn’t make me a bad person.) Now, imagine this: your principal, or Superintendent, or even your…
Learning Relationships: “Kid’s Can’t Learn From Teachers They Don’t Like”
Learning Relationships: “Kid’s Can’t Learn From Teachers They Don’t Like” The following TEDTalk by Rita Pierson has been making the digital rounds lately, and for good reason: it reminds us of why we all got…
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…
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…
6 Questions To Guide You In Choosing Your Next Professional Development Conference
Broadly speaking, there are two types of professional development (or “PD”): formal and informal. The latter is a new breed of PD, characterized by teachers interacting, collaborating, and improving via technology. Social media platforms like…
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,…
Most Popular This Year
The Definition Of Digital Citizenship
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad
9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
23 Ways To Use The iPad In The 21st Century PBL Classroom
15 Free Learning Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses
11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning
46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content
6 Types of Blended Learning
60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category
50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language
12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
