Teaching Positive In The Face Of Negativity: What Is Your ‘Why’? by Rachelle Poth What is your ‘why’? How can you ‘teach positive’ in the face of negativity? While many teachers focus on practical ideas and skills–assessment ideas, teaching strategies, and classroom management, for example–being about to create a healthy mindset can be one of…
What impact and effect on student performance can we expect from this education technology and on what do we base that expectation?
The world is changing, but that’s always been true since the world began. What is worth examining is the pace and scale and effects of those changes.
A learning journal is an ongoing collection of writing done for the purpose of learning rather than the purpose of demonstrating learning.
Staying Safe During A Hurricane by Terry Heick Right off the bat, let me say that I’m (very obviously) not an expert in hurricanes. If you want government-endorsed and specific FEMA-created checklists, you’re not going to get that here. I used to fly airplanes as a teen and grew up fascinated with severe weather, but…
A twitter chat is a public discussion based on a topic through a series of questions that serve as discussion prompts–all using a unifying hashtag.
Background noise works by quieting subconscious chatter and the need for stimulus. It’s a powerful tool for writing, reading, and focus.
The Library of Congress Literacy Awards were created in 1977 by Congress to “stimulate public interest in books and reading.”
Your Brain Isn’t Divided By Creativity And Logic by TeachThought Staff How the human brain works is a topic of considerable chatter, but not much in-depth discussion outside of neuroscience and psychology. There is indeed an undercurrent of learning (that should perhaps be an over-current) regarding brain-based learning and research, but very little understanding of…
Here are 22 myths in modern academic learning. No explanation, no analysis, just 22 commonly held misconceptions about learning in academia.
Included in this post are 10 team-building games to get you started towards a friendlier, more positive classroom.
Understanding social media is more than using it in the same way that understanding physics is more than simply being affected by gravity.