50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning
From Civ 5 and Portal 2 to Assassin’s Creed and Minecraft, here are 50 of the best video games for learning.
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Preventing Youth Suicide Through Lessons Of Hope
Schools for Hope is a free curriculum designed to prevent youth suicide by sharing tools to find & maintain hope.
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10 Examples Of ‘Old’ Education Technology
Here are some examples of old education technology that have paved the way for the edtech of today, from the abacus to the very first tablet.
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Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment
Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment By Andrew Smith Lewis New applications and technologies are now embedded into practically every aspect of the learning experience. Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a…
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8 Steps To Teacher-Led, Digital PD
Do you want your PD effective, credible with staff, or affordable? Pick two — finding training that fits all 3 is a tremendous challenge.
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Creative Teaching Starts With Empowerment
How Empowerment Fosters Creativity by creativist.io Everyone has at least one story where they have witnessed the silencing of creativity. It might be a story where a teacher or a district policy confused joy with disruption. It might be a story where a child whose inner fire was lit by music and movement was forced…
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“If that’s where they are, it’s where I must be, too.”
“If that’s where they are, it’s where I must be, too.” contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Smartphone Owner And User Of Analog Clocks Analog clocks, cursive, Roman numerals, map reading. Memorizing times tables, dates, and battles. These skills were part of my K-12 curricula. They may soon go the way of quills and inkwells in favor of…
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For Helicopter Parents That Help Too Much
6 Tongue-In-Cheek Tips For Helicopter Parents That Help Too Much by Anonymous Practicing Teacher That Cares We’ve all been there. We’ve worked a long grueling day only to come home and find out our child has a project due the next day. We’ve argued and threatened punishment over said project. We’ve been too tired to…
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9 Ways To Prevent Cyberbullying
While it will be impossible to prevent it altogether, there are ways to prevent cyberbullying–and strategies to respond when it does.
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Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum
If we want to prepare students, we need to integrate, combine, and cut. Less is more. What’s most important in your curriculum?
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8 Steps To Design PBL In The Classroom
What is problem-based learning? An approach to learning where the identification, analysis, and solving of problems drives student learning.
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Math In The Real World: 400 Lessons From EconEdLink
400 Lessons On Math In The Real World From EconEdLink by TeachThought Staff NEW YORK, NY (February 19, 2015) Based on many of the same skills and concepts, math is a natural complement to economics and personal finance; and yet, they are rarely taught in conjunction with each other in our nation’s schools. The Council…
