16 Learning Strategies To Promoting Grit And Delayed Gratification In Students In psychology, intelligence is not the primary predictor of success. It is the ability to persevere in hardship, persist and learn after failure, and have a resilient spirit in the face of obstacles. Intelligence is a gift that can be developed and nurtured, but…
How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks, According To A 10th Grader This article was written by Noa Gutow-Ellis, a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas. She’s passionate about all things related to the Arab Spring and 21st Century Education. As an 8th grader, Noa gave a TEDx talk about the power of social media. We can do better. Better…
Concept-mapping allows creators to articulate nuance, context, and interdependence between ideas in a very user-centered way.
How To Reduce Student Testing Anxiety Tests aren’t going away anytime soon, and as the stakes increase, when the time for tests rolls around everybody in the classroom can get a little edgy. Teachers need all the help they can find to prepare students to take tests seriously without making them anxious or overwrought. Here…
Questionnaires? Interest inventories? A mastery-by-standard database? Here, Graham Attwell offers ideas to use Google Forms in the classroom.
Examining Blended Learning Models Through Student To Student Interactions In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2 below, Stanley looks specifically at student-to-student interaction, and the reality of synchronous and asynchronous access. by Thomas Stanley, Project Learning…
When students are engaged, the final product will be much better. Here are 10 ideas for better project-based learning in your classroom.
What digital tools allow students to communicate in new ways, but with a clear sense of audience, purpose, and application of the writing process?
So I was looking through an old Animal Farm unit of mine when I found some notes I had written that sketch a basic outline for a “writing” unit (i.e., a unit designed primarily to produce a piece of writing that’s gone through the entire writing process) from my second year of teaching. Rough as…
Ideas for Creating an Interactive Blended Learning Experience by Thomas Stanley, Project Learning LLC There are, sometimes frustratingly, a number of ways to teach in the online world. Some programs are credit retrieval, others are expanded correspondence courses, and still others ask the student to do some thematic activities. Another exciting way to teach is…
A BYOD device of the future will surprise us with unimaginable functionalities that lay far beyond mere extrapolation.
Twitter is a microblogging platform, so there is a wide range of content. Sometimes users tweet links to content while others share ideas.