The Adaptive Learning Technology One Company Depends On by Jaxson Khan, Language Zen Education is better when it is dynamic and adapts to you as a learner. Unfortunately, despite a recent wave of innovation in new technologies and applications which teach whatever your heart desires, most educational software and online courses still try to re-create a…
12 iOS Astronomy Apps For Learning What better way to encourage STEM learning than by tapping into a child’s fascination with outer space? From the Mars Curiosity Rover to the behavior of water in zero gravity, space exploration has always widened many eyes. 12 Apps for Studying Aerospace, Outer Space, Planets, and Stars Night Sky/…
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher and Learnist Evangelist New teachers face many challenges. They are entering the field at one of the most demanding times ever, and turnover is high. Even the best teacher prep program can’t simulate a real classroom. As a result, many good people find themselves ill equipped to handle the demands…
by Jane Healey, Ph.D. What Students Need To Know About AP Courses Based on a review of the most current research on AP courses, Madeline Levine and Denise Pope of Challenge Success, an educational organization at Stanford University, offer a detailed report on the college-level programming. Their findings come as more and more schools drop…
As sensory input goes into neocortex, it makes memory patterns of the new data and when it sees something similar it can understand.
What Are The Best Tips For New Teachers, From Experienced Teachers? Teaching is important. Teaching is changing. Teaching is hard. And at the intersection of these three truths lies the constant need for a variety of support for teachers–new teachers or experienced. It’s one thing for trained educational psychologists to offer dry academic papers saying…
Teaching disruptively helps create learners who ask the right question at the right time for reasons that matter to them.
More high schools are replacing AP courses with innovative programs that prepare students for college in a more contemporary environment.
What Questions Will Help You Become A Better Teacher This School Year? by Terry Heick 1. Why are my ‘best’ lessons, assessments, and units ‘best’? And how can I share those powerful characteristics across other units, because let’s be honest, not all of your units are created equal? Your project-based learning unit that uses blogging…
Backchanneling allows students to use collaborative note-taking, ask questions, share notes, and more in real-time without ‘disturbing’ the class.
The ability to ‘rethink’ as well as effectively question what you read and see and hear are two of the most powerful ideas in 21st-century teaching.
contributed by Jennifer Smith Note: The Google Glass program has been discontinued The addition of human-like senses to computers (perceptual computing) has been one of the goals of technology during the last five years or so. Now, communication devices that combine a multitude of factors like touch, voice, facial recognition, and other similar features are…
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