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.
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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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…
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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…
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Shifting Toward An Architecture of Participation
Learning is changing–becoming more entrepreneurial than directly didactic. That is, more learner-centered and than teacher-controlled.
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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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The Increasingly Dated Image Of The Slacker Teacher
The slacker teacher stereotype has led lawmakers to enact reforms that direct the curricula teachers teach and how they measure progress.
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It’s Time To Stop Talking About Bullying & Talk Kindness Instead
We have to change the way we talk about bullying. I’m convinced that we have to confront it with its psychological opposite – kindness.
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What Is Differentiated Instruction? 10 Examples & Non-Examples
What is differentiated instruction? Examples include varied reading comprehension questions, adaptive assessments, and 1-on-1 coaching.
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The Lesser-Known Benefits Of eLearning For Teachers
What Are The Lesser-Known Benefits Of eLearning For Teachers? contributed by Chris Waldron, TakeLessons.com The relatively recent boom in technology has opened up incredibly valuable resources for teachers and students. One of the most valuable resources currently available is the ability to give and receive academic instruction. We typically think of this technological advancement as a…
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11 Sample Education BYOT Policies To Help You Create Your Own
There is no single way to implement a BYOT program, so we’ve included 11 widely varying policy styles in this post.
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A Tutorial For Google Docs In The Classroom
If literacy is the foundation of learning, tools that promote its integration can be considered equally foundational. Let’s take a look at Google Docs.
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Apple Didn’t Announce Any Of These Ideas For Your Classroom
15 Of Apple’s Unannounced Innovations In Education by TeachThought Staff Apple’s annual September unveil event has come and gone, and left us with two new pieces of hardware–the Apple Watch, and a 5.5″ iPhone “phablet.” While there were other announcements, including Apple announcing their intention to replace your wallet with your phone with ApplePay, for 21st century…
