50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students
Here are 50 ways teachers across content areas–and homeschooled learners too–can promote digital media literacy.
Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know
‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.
12 Things Schools Could Be Instead Of Schools
There’s no reason a ‘school’ can’t become a tech-infused place-based learning environment that focuses on literacy and civic participation.
An Efficient Classroom: 6 Factors Of Academic Achievement
What are the primary factors of academic performance? While literacy skills and background knowledge matter, so does motivation.
I’m Not Sure What To Think About Backward Design
Backward design encourages you to plan for a destination not by anticipating but visualizing the end and planning backward from there.
What Is The Identity Of Your Classroom?
Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.
What Every Teacher Needs In Order To Grow
What Does Every Teacher Need In Order To Grow? by Terry Heick Teaching can do weird things to you. It can give you purpose and sanctuary, or dissolve both right in front of your eyes. It can energize and drain you. Inspire and demoralize you. Connect and isolate you. It’s an awkward mix art and…
Why Technology Hasn’t Already Transformed Education
Apple set out to innovate textbooks and it just might work. But innovation in textbooks only results in innovative textbooks.
10 Things Every Teacher Needs To Survive
Teachers always need tools, strategies, and ideas but sometimes it’s the less obvious factors that determine their long-term success.
12 Barriers To Innovation In Education
While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
Learning Theories: Adaptive Control Of Thought
ACT-R is a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.
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