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…
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
A 1:1 iPad Menu For Guided Reading Choice boards are powerful tools for providing students with both choice and direction in their work. The idea, creatively shown below from teacher/blogger Monica Evon in the form of a menu, allows teachers to guide students towards certain forms of academic practice, or demonstration of specific standards. If, for…
What Is The Difference Between An Initialism And An Acronym? Initialisms and an acronyms are often confused, not so much that one is mistaken for another, but rather that initialisms aren’t usually named at all. To many, every series of letters (that function as initials) are called “acronyms.” The distinction, while primarily an academic distinction,…
‘Stop Stealing Dreams’ Asks A Great Question Seth Godin is an author with a ranging topic landscape. Known more for his ideas on business and marketing than teaching and learning, in 2012 Godin nonetheless released a summary of his ideas on ed reform in a short eBook called “Stop Stealing Dreams.” You can guess the tone…
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