OPINION: Why Teachers Need One Another
Who gets to say you’re doing a good job as a teacher? When you go to bed at night, whose approval are you really looking for?
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A Stunningly Simple Way To Explain Pi
What is Pi? Pi (or ‘π’) is a mathematical constant defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
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The Difference Between Googling And Inquiry-Based Learning
Search is about finding pieces, knowledge is about knowing the potential value of those pieces.
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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?
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
