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…
Students love music. It’s engaging, and offers an accessible and authentic format to access ideas and draw standards-related teaching from.
Our fascination with uniformity has something to do with our constant need to “scale” everything across billions and billions of people.
Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words: Sally and her seashells, Peter and his peppers.
I was moved to share Bryan Stevenson’s “We Need To Talk About An Injustice,” because of its authenticity, utility, and value for teachers.
The included list highlights some of the best study apps out there, from stalwarts like Evernote and Any.Do to others like CamScanner & Zite.
Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.
Here is a simple question that, asked with the right tone, can provide a lifeline to any student in any context.What do you think?
Is technology peripheral to the learning activity or essential to its success? Does it deliver information or help students create meaning?
What is ‘sticky teaching’? It’s an obvious and relatively simple but interesting idea: teaching that causes learning to stick.
The Next Time You’re Ready To Give Up On A Student by Terry Heick Few teachers will ever admit to “giving up” on a student. None that I know would ever outright turn their back on a child, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy to know how to give that support–especially when they seem…
Franklin Academy 1:1 iPad Initiative: A Four Year Study & Review by Teaching & Learning With The iPad Conference Abstract The Franklin Academy High School implemented a 1:1 iPad deployment a the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. Over the course of the next two school years, the pilot was expanded to include all grades 9-12…