6 Questions Every Teacher Needs To Answer In Order To Grow
Growing as a teacher requires knowing what you know and what you don’t know, and neither are as simple as they seem.
How Can We Improve Education?
How can we improve education? Our current system is designed to publish common goals that drive our common actions and performance.
Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking
It would make sense that as tech becomes more integrated, accessible, and smarter, those connections will deepen as our priorities change.
How Teaching Is Changing: 15 Challenges For The Modern Teacher
A modern teacher has to demonstrate for students not how to solve problems, but why those problems should be solved.
Video: A History Of Hip-Hop From 1979-2017
It could be that the best way this history of hip-hop video can help you is for your own personal use, rather than for student entertainment.
What Your Social Media Habits Say About Your Teaching Style
What Do Your Social Media Habits Reveal About Your Teaching Style? You’re a lurker—love social media, but more the media than the social, so you stay in the background—looking, skimming, saving, and skimming and looking some more, but always quietly, and always just out of sight. You spend an hour or two tops online—just the basics—messages, some shopping…
12 Strategies For Teaching Literature In The 21st-Century
From affording choice to anchoring year-long discussion of certain themes, here are strategies for teaching literature in the 21st century.
Generation Screen: What Social Media Has Done To Children
For some in ‘Generation Screen,’ things that are ‘viral’ can be seen as preferable to things that affect and endure.
The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, & Connectivism
Connectivism is similar to constructivism. The difference lies in networks; rather than supplemental, they are primary sources.
What Works In Education And How Do We Know?
What works in education and how do we know? What do we know an idea is ‘good’? Letter grades? Test performance? Graduation Rates?
Nas Breaks Down Hip-Hop Classic ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell’ With Harvard Poetry Professor
Nas explores ‘It Ain’t Hard To Tell,’ a track of ranging similes and metaphors with a pace that required 50+ plays before you could begin to appreciate it,
10 Collaboration Tips For 21st Century Teachers
From The Classroom To Your PLN: 10 Collaboration Tips For 21st Century Teachers by Terry Heick Summer is a make-it-or-break-it time for educators. The non-stop, brutal schedule that is a school year starts with all the finesse of trampling elephants, and doesn’t relent for the next nine months (not coincidentally, the same amount of time…
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