Creating video narratives requires both creativity and teamwork. For that reason, it’s a great assignment to use in the classroom. But how do you make such a complex process playful enough to maintain the students’ attention? Until now, it would have taken a huge effort from educators to make the process seamless. Some recent social…
How Do You Use An iPad To Add Voice Comments To Grading? by TeachThought Staff Offering timely and effective learning feedback is a critical part of the learning process. This is a concept that’d seem to be more accessible than ever with technology, but sometimes technology is two steps forward, one step back. Take for example grading…
10 Simple Tips For Better Teaching With Tablets contributed by Ravi Bhatt, iAnnotate Software Developer Teachers can’t escape the growing trend of technology in the classroom. It’s more than just hype. More schools are buying tablets for use in the classroom, with Apple’s tablet sales to the education sector doubling last year. As a mobile…
What makes a teacher successful? Having an expertise in reading, writing, math or science is necessary, but the ability to transfer that knowledge into another person is what makes an excellent instructor stand out. What good is it if a teacher has all the facts, but cannot communicate them in a way that others can…
Wisr: Quizzes On Twitter By Content Area Twitter for learning is a topic that probably deserves some discussion. In part because it’s an incredibly popular tool that connects people, and connecting people (and ideas) is what learning is about. And also in part because such study can serve as a kind of analogue for existing…
What the library of the future will look like is kind of up for debate. Will it be full of tablets that use Augmented Reality to search for physical resources? Will it be a mix of physical and digital resources that complement one another–digital logs and databases of physical texts? Or will libraries–as we currently…
Help Students Respond To Common Core Texts With These Reflective Questions The Common Core Standards represent a shift in the traditional instruction of English-Language Arts in the average American public school K-12 classroom. While there are several differences in the new standards, one of the most interesting (in addition to the expectation of technology integration)…
by Jennifer Rita Nichols It seems so simple, doesn’t it? Designing a creative space in your classroom will promote student creativity. However, many classrooms are far from being labelled as ‘creative spaces’. Schools in general have developed into very industrial places. You can feel the difference as soon you walk into the building. The difference…
Flickr can help students tell digital stories, capture authentic events with images, saving PBL artifacts in a digital portfolio, and more.
Ray Bradbury redirects the attention given to the banning (and burning) of books, and turns it back on culture itself.
Using twitter for learning requires that you use it as an ongoing cultural survey of sorts. Then add Bloom’s Taxonomy for improved outcomes.
Does gender bias inherently affect the way we teach, and therefore short-term and long-term student growth?