Creating A New Digital Architecture Of Participation
With the explosion of digital media, there are new scales for knowledge-sharing and criteria for the credibility of these ideas.
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7 Ways To Save Money Buying College Textbooks
College is expensive enough without the added pressure of costly textbooks
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Improving The Relationship Between Schools And Communities
If schools serve students and students are deeply embedded in the fabric of communities, how can we serve those students without knowing those communities?
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How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology
In light of the access of modern technology, schools can evolve while simultaneously growing closer to the people they serve.
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What Problem Does Technology Help Schools Solve?
How can we properly evaluate education technology? What exactly should new tools improve or what exactly should they create?
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The Relationship Between Reading And Critical Literacy
Sounds leads to words, words to ideas, ideas to perspectives, perspectives to behavioral change, and behavioral change to a better world.
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The Difference Between Constructivism And Constructionism
Constructivism focuses on how learners construct knowledge through experience while constructionism emphasizes learning by making.
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When Schools And Parents Don’t Talk
Communities don’t understand teaching and learning? Education doesn’t know what communities really need? This seems like an opportunity.
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An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom
This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.
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What Students Will Learn: 8 Responsive Content Areas Of The Future
This doesn’t mean we won’t teach math or reading in the future. However, we might reframe what we teach and how and why we teach it.
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50 Learning Reflection Questions For Students
Were you an active or a passive learner? Of what you learned today, what are you most comfortable with and what is still ‘iffy’?
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15 Activities To Help Students Review And Retain New Information
By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on learning.
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14 Ways To Help Students Build Confidence
‘Believing in students’ isn’t enough–they have to have sufficient knowledge or experience with ideas and skills to ‘do well in school.’
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What Is An Essential Question?
Essential Questions are thought-provoking and open-ended questions that serve as the core of a lesson or unit in a curriculum.
