The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration
Is technology peripheral to the learning activity or essential to its success? Does it deliver information or help students create meaning?
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The ABCs Of Sticky Teaching
What is ‘sticky teaching’? It’s an obvious and relatively simple but interesting idea: teaching that causes learning to stick.
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The Next Time You’re Ready To Give Up On A Student
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…
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1:1 iPad Initiative: A Four Year Study & Review
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…
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Spreading Your Wings And Becoming A Connected Educator
Becoming a connected educator means plugging in, making it official, “unconferencing,” and connecting your class/school immediately.
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What I Learned By Doing What I Ask Students To Do
Teachers shadowing students will quickly realize that sitting is exhausting, learning is often passive, and teachers are often irksome.
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11 Classic Hip-Hop Songs You Can Teach With
In short, the evolution of hip-hop as an art form, critical cultural voice, and medium to reach youth is a complex & hugely ‘human’ concept.
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Teaching Writing With Technology? Blogging, Blogging, Blogging
Blogging offers a fun, casual and accessible way for students to develop, hone and perfect writing skills without making it seem like work.
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A Free App That Promotes Fire Prevention Awareness
A Free App That Promotes Fire Prevention Awareness by weareteachers.org New free app for kids teaches fire safety with creativity and compassion The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) children’s website, Sparky.org, has launched a new app for kids in honor of Fire Prevention Week October 5-11, 2014. Sparky and The Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms aims…
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3 Ways To Bring Live Blogging To The Classroom
3 Ways to Bring Live Blogging To The Classroom by Heather Edick Live blogging is a blogging technique used often by journalists and others who want to capture an event moment by moment and post it to their web site. Teachers might be able to take advantage of this trend by introducing live blogging to…
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Shifting Toward An Architecture of Participation
Learning is changing–becoming more entrepreneurial than directly didactic. That is, more learner-centered and than teacher-controlled.
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Education’s Curious Fascination With Uniformity
While decent, the adoption of a set of national standards for K-12 public schools doesn’t solve the challenges in mass compulsory education.
