Unlocking The Learning Potential Of The iPad by Terry Heick The iPad. Pop culture’s plaything and #edtech’s (somewhat dimming?) neon sign. It’s an app library, a media consumption device, and a mobile learning tool that makes yesterday’s graphing calculators, smartboards, and laptops look like abacuses. So we buy them then—by the truckloads, in fact. We stamp them…
Use Google Docs to collaborate with your colleagues on joint lesson plans or to create shared calendars for cross-classroom activities.
Untethered from desks, a tablet represents personalized learning potential for a student in ways we’re just catching up to.
How To Create A Twitter Chat In Your School contributed by Nellie Mitchell A twitter chat is an amazing resource for professional development and gives educators the option to participate in their PJs, from the comfort of their own home! It is essentially a chat room, with everyone sharing and talking and hanging out virtually—discussing…
A beautiful poem of suffering, anxiety about the future, and ultimately–finally–love. By Wendell Berry, here is “The Peace Of Wild Things.”
Web literacy touches on a variety of competencies but allows students to do one essential thing: meaningfully engage on the Internet.
Do we fully understand the long-term effects of science–and if we don’t, how should that change how we “practice science”?
What should you read next? Consider Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World,’ Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ or Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Player Piano.’
12 Literary Road Trips In A Single Map by TeachThought Staff Richard Kreitner and Steven Melendez over at atlasobscura recently shared a map you might want to take a look at. The map–and its hand-typed notes–represent an enormous effort, and the selections themselves some mighty fine taste in recent literature. There are over 1500 entries on the…
The need to belong, the desire to be understood, and the instinct to understand are universal human emotions that mean everything.
Is happiness something that can be caused, or is it primarily the result of a genetic sequence that can only be adjusted in small degrees?
Although the American Association of University Women focuses on all of academia, closing the gender gap in STEM remains a priority.
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