How the School Experience Can Demoralize Struggling Students In school, we figured out pretty quickly who was smart and who was “dumb.” Smart students made As, or at least were capable of making As if they…
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Learning Is Not About The Technology
You have an expert Skype or Google Hangout into your classroom. Students discover a career they want to pursue. It’s not about the technology. It is about the learning. Your students are creating deep reflections…
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…
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…
5 Easy Ways To Reduce Student Stress In The Classroom
How do you make your students feel? Research is starting to show pretty conclusively that the answer to this question can have a profound effect on the learning that occurs within your class or school….
To Truly Improve Learning, Schools Should Stop Trying So Hard
To Truly Improve Learning, Schools Should Stop Trying So Hard Education is a series of learning experiences informed by policy, and actuated by teachers. Policy, by its very nature, is sweeping and ambitious. It is…
Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone
Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who has inspired me since my first year in the classroom, recently wrote about the intersection of academic standards and creativity. “Why do people insist on viewing the Standards as…
Technology Is Technology; A Computer Is A Computer
Many years ago, I taught, or really, introduced, young Pre-K and Kindergarten students to computers. Every two months, I brought a different type of computer to use. Some months I would lug that huge beige…
EdTech Doesn’t Hold All The Answers For Struggling Students
By Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report In March, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, representatives from big-name companies and philanthropies and some teachers descended on Austin, TX for a conference meant to highlight new solutions to the…
14 Brilliant Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters For Teachers
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a useful tool for assessment design, but using it only for that function is like using a race car to go to the grocery–a huge waste of potential. In an upcoming post…
10 Ways To Support Learning Styles With Concept Mapping
Do you have a preferred way of learning and teaching new things? Learning is an experience that can be made enjoyable to the measure we identify within ourselves the nature of our learning style. It…
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