Want To Know How Students Feel When They Read Complex Texts?
What, in fact, do you do when you read challenging text? What do you do when you do not understand on first pass?
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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The Leap From Decoding To Comprehension
Perhaps it’s time to explore a radical but common sense notion: maybe we don’t understand how reading comprehension develops over time.
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Tinker Thinker: 21 Awesome Maker Kits
What your definition of ‘making’ is will help you form your definition of maker learning. Here are 21 maker kits to get you started.
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Looking Down Our Noses At The Community College Experience
Thumbing Our Noses At The Community College Experience by Dale Schlundt, M.A. The question of “where do I go from here” can be a daunting challenge for many high school seniors getting ready to advance to the next stage of their life. The thought of “being on your own”, even if that means living at…
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Xavier University Adds A MakerBot Innovation Center
The MakerBot Innovation Center is a custom, centralized & scalable 3D printing solution developed to meet the needs of Xavier.
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Unplugging To Connect: A Tech Timeout For Schools?
On February 12-14, 1100 students at Convent & Stuart Hall will take The Tech Timeout Academic Challenge, turning off their devices for 3 days.
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Raising Our Teacher Voices: A Call For A New Generation Of Leadership
Raising Our Teacher Voices: A Call For A New Generation Of Teacher Leadership By Jen Orr In 2015, what is the state of teacher leadership–its sources, its voices, and its new potential? Last month I had the opportunity to participate in ASCD’s Whole Child Symposium on teacher leadership. It consisted of two panels, the first was…
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Peace Posters: A Collection Of Visuals Designed by Students
Peace Posters: A Collection Of Visuals Designed by Students by TeachThought Staff The modern internet–memes, gif animations, and infographics for days, but of cats. What about peace? That’s (something in the universe of) what an educator thought for herself recently when she reflected on the power of the visual world wide web while lamenting the…
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What Is Prodigy? A Math Game For Skill Building K-8
Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game that integrates common-core math (grades 1-8) into a fantasy style game that students love playing.
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The Ingredients Of A Creative Teacher
Awareness. Empowerment. Practice. These are the three key ingredients to growing (and maintaining) a creative teacher.
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The SAMR Model In 120 Seconds
This video does a good job of explaining SAMR in less time than it takes to watch Apple make another $18-billion announcement.
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The US–Again–Turns To Other Countries For Ed Reform
The US Turns To Other Countries For Ed Reform by TeachThought Staff So the United States wants some more ed reform to add to the ed reform already in place, and to do so they’ve created a committee. This committee–the The National Conference of State Legislatures–is seeking to “improve education.” That this is vague and…
