4 Phases Of Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guide For Teachers
After researching, this stage of the inquiry process is centered around students clarifying both their own thinking.
Swear Like Shakespeare: A Grand Taxonomy Of The Bard’s Choice Words
How To Swear Like Shakespeare: A Grand Taxonomy Of The Bard’s Choice Words For those literature teachers stuck in 2013 who need an edge on a generation of students increasingly speaking in an odd combination of text-speak and hip-hop, there is the following infographic from charleychartwell.com. You will not find emaciated phrases such as awesome,…
A List Of 50+ Teaching Strategies To Jumpstart Your Teacher Brain
These 50+ strategies to jumpstart your teaching brain include literacy strategies, approaches to assessment, and grouping strategies.
What Is The Value of Wikipedia For Teachers?
What Is The Value Of Wikipedia For Teachers? Imagine a digital pile of everything we know. Or that we notice and think about. A kind of codex for humanity, in the form of encyclopedic entries on everything from String Theory & Quantum Mechanics, to a listing of every single ancient Jedi, Bigfoot trap, and internet meme…
The Teacher’s Guide To Wikipedia In The Classroom
This guide, in the form of 11 questions and answers, helps clarify certain misconceptions about what has come to be one of the most popular and frequently used websites in the world. It also can can be found in its entirety on wikipedia.com. As it is created by Wikipedia–or some arrangement of its volunteer editors–it is undoubtedly…
4 Key Factors In Language Acquisition
by Andrew Weiler, languagelearningunlocked.com Language learning is one of the most challenging skills to teach in a formal learning environment. Despite the fact that all of us were successful in learning our first language, most people struggle learning a second. Of course there are those who learn multiple languages, and some quite effortlessly it seems,…
What Challenge-Based Learning Looks Like In The Real World
I recently stumbled upon this idea of “decision theater,” a spectacular merging of technology, collaboration, and challenge-based learning. The goal of the Arizona State-based program is to “enable action through knowledge-based decision processes,” and this is interesting (to you and I) for a variety of reasons: 1. The structured interaction between “decision-makers” and technology 2. The…
How To Engage Boys In The Classroom
6 Strategies For Engaging Boys In The Classroom Engaging male students is a matter of concern for many educators, judging by professional development books and conference sessions we see, as well as conversations with other teachers. Historically, boys have been out-performed in the K-12 classroom by girls, though they have performed somewhat evenly on national…
11 Storyboarding Apps To Organize & Inspire Young Writers
In addition to creating fiction, storyboarding apps can also be used for sharing assignments, capturing research notes, and documenting PBL.
Curriculum Is More Important Than Learning Technology
The overwhelming amount of information will surely impede learning for many students in the absence of teaching grounded in good curriculum.
An Aging Teacher Looks At 64: Staying Active In Education
Ageism in education can be a factor but we paid our dues long ago and deserve to stay active and contribute our experience to education.
The Context & History Of Blended Learning
This infographic on the history of blended learning does a good job of making the case that the concept has always existed!
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