There is a saying that “Teaching creates all other professions.” It rings with truth so loud that one should hear it from miles away. So my thoughts this morning turn to teacher preparation. Since it is true that teaching creates all other professions, why do I get the impression that teacher preparation is not as…
by Dr. Justin Marquis, Ph.D. Twitter is one of those pieces of technology that people either love or hate. For the haters, it seems like a superfluous, narcissistic, even petty platform through which people who think they are more important than they really are share their most intimate details with the world. For those who…
How effective technology actually is in enhancing learning depends on how it functions in the learning process. Outside of David Blaine, few things are magic. The following visual is interesting because it explains how technology enhances learning from the perspective of the teacher. This is critical because a teacher’s beliefs about what works is (obviously)…
Here, we review pros & cons of behaviorism, cognitivism, & constructivism, while making a case for connectivism as the best learning theory.
Pedagogy and innovation in education gets lost in a standardized curricula, where the artistry is replaced by this dead language of delivery.
Here are places to find open-source textbooks, whether you’re enrolled in college or an educator looking for books to use in your class.
Here are the top social & emotional learning apps to teach children resilience, managing emotions, mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, and more.
While the Common Core standards have been released and are making their way into classrooms across the United States, they do not contain Science content, but rather simply suggest a literacy component across all content areas (including science). The Next Generation Science Standards (which are still in draft form until January 29th, 2013 and can be…
Notetaking In The Digital Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach Note-taking is part-and-parcel to the academic learning experience. Often during lecture, but also experiments, interviews, and field research, understanding what’s important and recording it for future reference is central to the learning process–curation before we called it that. (You can see Darmouth’s resources for notetaking here.)…
Preface In part 1 of this post we took a look at the writing process itself–the relative awkwardness of the process for many developing writers, and how live modeling can help support writer growth. In this part, we are focusing on using cloud-based word processing and general productivity suites like Adobe Buzzword and Google Docs….
Literacy-rich environments have a significant impact on what goes on in the classroom and set the stage for interactions with genres.
There are dozens of benefits that justify earning a higher education, including–but by no means limited to–better employment prospects, access to jobs with higher pay and the broadening of a college student’s social and mental horizons. Even so, approximately one in two high school graduates choose to forgo these potential benefits because they cannot reconcile…