Amazon Updates Whispercast For Use In Schools In Education From a press release SEATTLE—Recently Amazon launched Whispercast 3.0, an update to its free, self-service platform for organizations to easily discover, procure, manage and distribute digital content to nearly any device. Since launch, Whispercast has been adopted by more than 130 of the 250 largest school districts…
What do educators and learners need from iPad integration? What is tablet ‘workflow’ in an educational context?
June 15: Exclusive Live Stream Of The Atlantic’s Education Summit by TeachThought Staff TeachThought is excited to be the exclusive streaming partner for today’s The Atlantic’s Education Summit. Summary Two-year olds are entering preschool and learning on iPads. Primary schools are considering the role supportive environments play on students’ learning. Admission to college is a…
Here are some of the best insights for educators hoping to advance their career, whether in their current district or by relocating.
Some of the mistakes I made as a new teacher involved taking everything personally and being afraid to make mistakes in the first place!
Create a discovery jar. At the beginning of summer, brainstorm all of the things your child is curious about, then put them in a jar.
Helping Students Respond To Art In A Museum by Steve Berer, musexplore.net In this article, I will present a project to challenge your students to creatively respond to art objects that they find particularly engaging or mysterious. Their task is to try to see those works of art accurately and to develop a relationship with…
The film section of Tuppence Magazine has put together a list of the 25 best learning resources for film studies available online.
Making Your Classroom Work More Like A Playground by TeachThought Staff Should classrooms be more like playgrounds? The playground is a place of whimsy, creativity, cognitive “ease,” and social interaction. It’s accessible, open, and fun. There may be some room for this type of thinking in a classroom, yes? Embedded in this thinking are a lot of the ideas…
If You Want To Create A Fire For Inquiry, Start At The Beginning by Brian Cleary, oldbrainteacher.com If science is inquiry and inquiry is a fire, when does that fire start? When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. This should not…
Using real time performance information for planning and monitoring leads to the best alignment of student personalized learning.
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