The Common Core has emphasized the practical nature of education, and rightly so in many cases. As a result of its emphasis on practical education, for example, students are reading more non-fiction now in the elementary grades. This is a good thing, as reading non-fiction requires certain skills not required when reading fiction. The result…
The Problem Twitter used to be a simple micro-blogging service to allow brief messaging, content sharing and aggregation through hashtags, and social conversations. But with its incredible success comes a price: everything. Literally everything. According the infographic from cabletv.com/#blametwitter, there are more than 233 million tweets per day. A little math will tell you that…
Twitter has become a staple in education at every level from teaching to learning, content to research, networking to news and curation.
While there’s always a “yeah, but” factor to new tech, it’s interesting to see the realization of what was not long ago science fiction.
What Are TeachThought’s Most Popular Twitter Posts? TeachThought is officially ten weeks old (well, about 12 now), and to celebrate that milestone we’re putting together posts that reflect back on that time, while also acting as a kind of curation tool for some of the content you have found most helpful, or might have missed….
Here are 50 Twitter hashtags for the 21st century learner, by categories that are arranged by ideas that will continue to rise in importance.
How To Prepare Students For Complex Futures by Art Costa, Ed.D., and Bena Kallick, Ph.D Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards which set a framework for what concepts, and skills should be mastered in math and English-Language Arts in K – 12 education. The National Science Teachers…
YouTube is a goldmine for educational content if you can navigate its challenges and utilize its built-in features and settings.
From designing and documenting to publishing, drawing, and publishing, here are 23 ways to use the iPad for project-based learning.
Take quick surveys of what students think and want by asking them to respond via smartphone apps designed specifically for realtime feedback.
In our well-intended insistence to bring everyone up to “proficiency” via academic “standards,” there is also an automatic reductionism that occurs, whereby all of the known universe is distilled into a script of need to know. While the logic seems sounds–how can we know we’re educating students if we don’t know where the learning should begin or…
Choosing To Become A Special Education Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored post from online teacher certification programs at St. Joseph’s Online University Program Special education teachers, when asked, often state that getting their special education degree to work in this field is a personal calling as much as it is their career. Many aspiring special education…