While the Common Core standards have been released and are making their way into classrooms across the United States, they do not contain Science content, but rather simply suggest a literacy component across all content areas (including science). The Next Generation Science Standards (which are still in draft form until January 29th, 2013 and can be…
Notetaking In The Digital Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach Note-taking is part-and-parcel to the academic learning experience. Often during lecture, but also experiments, interviews, and field research, understanding what’s important and recording it for future reference is central to the learning process–curation before we called it that. (You can see Darmouth’s resources for notetaking here.)…
Preface In part 1 of this post we took a look at the writing process itself–the relative awkwardness of the process for many developing writers, and how live modeling can help support writer growth. In this part, we are focusing on using cloud-based word processing and general productivity suites like Adobe Buzzword and Google Docs….
Literacy-rich environments have a significant impact on what goes on in the classroom and set the stage for interactions with genres.
There are dozens of benefits that justify earning a higher education, including–but by no means limited to–better employment prospects, access to jobs with higher pay and the broadening of a college student’s social and mental horizons. Even so, approximately one in two high school graduates choose to forgo these potential benefits because they cannot reconcile…
Perhaps the biggest misconception that one can have about 21st century learning is to think of it as a single reform program.
Keeping up with social media is an entire industry in and of itself (see Mashable). The following social media cheat sheet created by Flowtown and Column Five media for social media sites was created for small businesses, but can be useful for teachers just discovering the joys–and pains– of twitter, facebook, YouTube, Google+, tumblr, and digg,…
by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, Institute for Habits of Mind A Whole Child Deserves A Whole Teacher: Using The Habits Of Mind To Promote Teacher Happiness A lot is said and written about the whole child. We often forget, however, that we should be considering the whole adult as well.  A teacher’s performance in the…
We recently had a look at the 50 best Facebook cover photos and we’ve followed it up with a look at the 50 best Twitter profile designs.
by simplyzesty.com After covering everything that Google Search has to offer, you can easily forget that search only forms one small part of the Google behemoth. With so many different features and clients available, it’s very easy to use the basic features for each and leave it at that. However, if you delve a little deeper,…
Professional learning networks can improve teaching. They can also act as communal intelligence that changes societal perceptions.
The shift to digital instruction, preparations for state online assessment, and a new crop of writing apps is adding energy to ELA.
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