5 Of The Most Common Problems With School Websites
Your school website is the most valuable piece of online real estate the school possesses. Why, then, are so many bad ones out there?
12 Mistakes Schools Make When Introducing The Next Big Thing
Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.
9 Tips For Smarter Teaching With YouTube
Teaching With Video: 9 Tips For Teaching With YouTube contributed by Marlon Gallano Let’s face it, times have changed. The way we learned in school by sitting at a desk with a book, notebook and pencil are no longer the norm. Textbooks and notebooks are being replaced with tablets. The pencil is being replaced by the stylus. Touchscreen…
How Google Impacts The Way Students Think
By ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find the information they want rather than the information they need.
Making The Shift To Mobile-First Teaching
The big idea of mobile teaching is mobility–changing the terms, spaces, and timing of learning by using mobile technology.
Project-Based Learning: Inside The Life Of A Project
Project-Based Learning: Inside The Life Of A Project by Terry Heick At some point, I saw “the life of a project” diagram on pinterest, and thought it did a brilliant job of capturing the emotion of teaching and learning through projects. So I took the idea, attributed to Maureen McHugh, and applied it to education. You…
Every Teacher Is A Vocabulary Teacher
Vocabulary is a matter of meaning and degrees of meaning, which means it cannot be the ‘job’ of a single content area or teacher.
4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary
Direct Instruction, Modeling, Immersion, and Varied Interactions are four of the many keys to developing academic vocabulary in students.
Google Drive For Education Now Free, Offers Unlimited Storage
Google Drive will be available to all Google Apps for Education users with unlimited storage, Vault, and enhanced auditing tools for free.
Why The Common Core Will Ultimately Fail
l Common Core Will Ultimately Fail by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education The current strong backlash to the Standards is completely predictable. Any time there is a major push to reform an institution there will be a backlash. As we saw with Obamacare, the flaws become magnified and politicized; the supposed benefits seem to many not worth the…
Music To Teach With: Hurt, By Johnny Cash
Students love music. It’s engaging, and offers an accessible and authentic format to access ideas and draw standards-related teaching from.
A Single Set Of National Standards Is Just Creepy
Our fascination with uniformity has something to do with our constant need to “scale” everything across billions and billions of people.
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