The True Purpose Of Testing in School
Beginning with the end (stating what the goal of a learning experience should be) can ease the ambiguity of assessment’s role in the process.
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The Paradox Of The Modern Teacher
23 propositions in an attempt to etch out the paradox of the modern teacher.
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8 Critical Skills For A Modern Education
In recent years it has become obvious that basic reading, writing and arithmetic are not enough. The importance of non-cognitive skills is clear.
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Apps Are Better Than Textbooks. Here Are 10 Compelling Examples.
Apps Are Better Than Textbooks. Here Are 10 Examples. We’ve theorized before that apps are the new textbook. That was back in 2012, and this hasn’t proven true for a variety of reasons. Not every classroom has tablets. Textbooks, while stagnant, are chock full of information and content. Further, some apps are pretty bad. Buggy. All flash…
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What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students?
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
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Celebrating Literacy With The Reading/Pleasure Cycle
The Reading-Pleasure Cycle by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com and Terry Heick Using your child’s interests, strengths, and talents you can connect them to reading they enjoy as they simultaneously build their reading skills. Their increased reading skill will result in more satisfying reading experiences. In short, as literacy levels increase, so does the pleasure of reading. But this…
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Create, Publish, Promote: An iPad Workflow For Learning
Using The iPad To Promote Ambition In Students Part of the the power of mobile learning technology is a matter of location–that is, the lap of the student. In a 1:1 classroom, each student has access (to the world itself) through the internet. The internet is a place of endless publishing, conversation, time-wasting, discovery, peril, recreation, and…
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20 Of The Best iPad Apps For Writing
20 Apps For Writing On The iPad Though the tablet, in form, tends towards consumption, the iPad can also serve as a capable word processor. How capable depends on how demanding you are about your word processing. Whether or not you have a physical keyboard (Logitech makes a very functional–and very thin–bluetooth keyboard) also matters,…
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Talking To Students About Homosexuality
Talking To Students About Homosexuality On the surface, discussing sexuality in schools doesn’t seem an entirely natural thing–not in an era of academics, anyway. From the inception of American public education through the early 1990s, classes on Home Economics, Woodworking, Shop, Automotive Repair, and even Sexual Education were standard fare. (One of these was probably…
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7 Characteristics Of A Digitally Competent Teacher
7 Characteristics Of A Digitally Competent Teacher by TeachThought Staff We’ve mused in the past on the kinds of things teachers might be expected to do with technology in the classroom, what they should be able to do with an iPad (assuming they have iPads), We’ve talked about the elements of a digital classroom, ways…
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Bullet Proof Blankets For School Shootings Are A Thing
Bullet Proof Blankets For School Shootings Are A Thing by Terry Heick There is a market for bullet proof–or rather, bullet resistant–blankets to cover children with. I’m incapable of contextualizing this, so I’m just going to share some information and links for further reading, then move on before I take off running and never stop,…
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Engaging In Isolation: Student Engagement In A Flipped Classroom
Engaging In Isolation: Student Engagement in a Flipped Classroom by Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Senior Director, Products, Adobe Systems This is part 2 of the series “Responsive Teaching For A Changing World,” a 3-part series is sponsored by Adobe Presenter 9. The Flipped Classroom model allows every student to learn at their own pace, with the rewind button of…
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