6 Elements Of Play: The Spectrum Of A Relaxed Mind by TeachThought Staff The role of play in learning is a complex thing, in part because it is easily misunderstood as ‘playing is learning.’ While that’s certainly true, there is also a role for play in formal learning experiences as well. As self-directed learning becomes more…
Hashtags in education can help you make valuable connections whether you’re a teacher, principal, or superintendent.
What Are The Pros & Cons Of Children On Social Media? contributed by Jennifer Smith In our social media-charged society, it’s easy to assume that children should not be on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Concerns range from safety to attention span to diminished ‘real life’ social skills to posture, blue light, and other dangers…
So how do we incorporate healthy social media use in the classroom? The following Sylvia Duckworth graphic offers some helpful initial ideas.
Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.
“Twitter…tends toward superficiality and draws people away from serious communication…(and) is not a medium of a serious interchange.”
We saw a need for a reading program and created one via teacher empowerment, focus on reading strategies, and high-interest texts.
You Need These 6 Things To Change Education by Terry Heick Every afternoon, after failing to take a nap because I make everything harder than it has to be, I pout down to Starbucks for coffee and a book. Today a teacher I used to work with walked by, and we caught up for a…
Using the TED Talks format, students create speeches to inform and persuade their peers about key social, cultural, & environmental issues.
Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”
Homework can be useful to help students learning, but isn’t always the best strategy. Here are alternatives to homework: a chart for teachers.
Video recording can help students express themselves in a more natural language than the tone they’d use to construct written ideas.
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