Teachers, Keep Your Eye On The Prize
I was moved to share Bryan Stevenson’s “We Need To Talk About An Injustice,” because of its authenticity, utility, and value for teachers.
20 Of The Best Study Apps For The Plugged-In Student
The included list highlights some of the best study apps out there, from stalwarts like Evernote and Any.Do to others like CamScanner & Zite.
The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration
Is technology peripheral to the learning activity or essential to its success? Does it deliver information or help students create meaning?
The ABCs Of Sticky Teaching
What is ‘sticky teaching’? It’s an obvious and relatively simple but interesting idea: teaching that causes learning to stick.
1:1 iPad Initiative: A Four Year Study & Review
Franklin Academy 1:1 iPad Initiative: A Four Year Study & Review by Teaching & Learning With The iPad Conference Abstract The Franklin Academy High School implemented a 1:1 iPad deployment a the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. Over the course of the next two school years, the pilot was expanded to include all grades 9-12…
50 Resources For Teaching With iPads
This collection is designed to reflect trends and changes–of the best resources for teaching with the iPad.
Spreading Your Wings And Becoming A Connected Educator
Becoming a connected educator means plugging in, making it official, “unconferencing,” and connecting your class/school immediately.
Teaching Writing With Technology? Blogging, Blogging, Blogging
Blogging offers a fun, casual and accessible way for students to develop, hone and perfect writing skills without making it seem like work.
A Free App That Promotes Fire Prevention Awareness
A Free App That Promotes Fire Prevention Awareness by weareteachers.org New free app for kids teaches fire safety with creativity and compassion The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) children’s website, Sparky.org, has launched a new app for kids in honor of Fire Prevention Week October 5-11, 2014. Sparky and The Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms aims…
3 Ways To Bring Live Blogging To The Classroom
3 Ways to Bring Live Blogging To The Classroom by Heather Edick Live blogging is a blogging technique used often by journalists and others who want to capture an event moment by moment and post it to their web site. Â Teachers might be able to take advantage of this trend by introducing live blogging to…
Shifting Toward An Architecture of Participation
Learning is changing–becoming more entrepreneurial than directly didactic. That is, more learner-centered and than teacher-controlled.
What Is A Learning Simulation?
Learning Simulations: An Overview This post has been updated from a 2012 post. Clark Aldrich is an enthusiastic advocate for new learning forms, and leading thinker on the power of learning simulations and author of Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds and Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education. (These…
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