5 Simple Ways Your Students Can Use Hashtags For Learning
Hashtags can be a valuable tool for educators, administrators, parents and students to connect with each other and share ideas and discoveries.
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10 Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers
What Are The Best Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers? by Andrea Leyden, examtime.com The adoption of Mind Maps in teaching has grown recently due to the benefits of using Mind Maps to learn and the availability of free online mind mapping software. Teachers have recognized the value of using Mind Maps to engage students, encourage…
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Technology In Education Can Only Do One Thing
Technology has has made access to information, people, and networks recreational. It is useful only insofar as it extends our own humanity.
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5 Tips For Managing Intergenerational Communication
What Are The Best Ways To Manage Intergenerational Communication? It never occurred to us that phone calls could be considered an “invasion of privacy.” Even after years of telemarketers punishing our telephones at the absolute worst times, the phone has been the way you communicate with someone in any enduring or substantive way. But every…
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What A 4 Year-Old’s Bucket List Looks Like
What’s on your bucket list? Publishing a book? Seeing your child’s wedding? Starting your own school? How about drinking clean water?
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Boring Teachers & How We All Can Respond
If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of them would simply say: boring.
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The Problematic Connotation Of Video Games
Video games’ time in the public spotlight is usually brief, and tangled with discussions on children, violence, and Constitutional rights.
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A 6-Step Process For Gamifying Your Classroom
Rather than “gamifying” a unit, Mia MacMeekin’s graphic promotes building a unit centered around a game and featuring game-like mechanics.
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12 Of The Best Financial Literacy Apps & Resources For Kids
Learn how to save, understand, monitor, and invest with 12 of the best financial literacy apps and resources for students.
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24 Unique Maker Education Resources For Teaching & Learning
What Are Some Unique Maker Education Resources For Teaching & Learning? by Mike Acedo 1. http://makezine.com/ Makezine.com is a major hub for the maker’s movement, providing amateur makers and educators with a plethora of information, resources, and project ideas to implement for themselves, or in their classrooms. 2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/This UK based tech company seeks to provide children…
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41 Important Neuroscience Terms For Teachers
Few educators need a deep grasp of neurology, but a working knowledge of the more common neuroscience terms for teachers could be useful.
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Student-Led Writing: How & Why I Let Students Lead The Writing Process
Student-Led Writing: How & Why I Let Students Lead The Writing Process by Jane Healey, Ph. D Recently, I threw out old curriculum for the book, Frankenstein, and I designed a unit based on strategies gleaned from articles and posts about flipping classrooms, encouraging students to own their learning, and inquiry-based education. A totally new approach…
