Homework can be useful to help students learning, but isn’t always the best strategy. Here are alternatives to homework: a chart for teachers.

Video recording can help students express themselves in a more natural language than the tone they’d use to construct written ideas.

In an effort to give back to his community, Chance the Rapper has noticed a disparity and is working to improve his hometown of Chicago.

If you ask a student to apply problem-solving skills when they are learning new and critical information, you’re asking the brain to do two things at once. This limits both processes. The task is ‘complex’ but not in a way…

Do digital learners prefer hyperlinking data sources in an assortment of media forms from a range of media sources?

The Cognitive Load Theory is built on the premise that the brain can only do so many things at once and need to plan lessons accordingly.

Writing is hard work–cognitively demanding and accessible via skill and perseverance and grit. Read more about what writing is & is not.

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