How To Prepare Students For Complex Futures by Art Costa, Ed.D., and Bena Kallick, Ph.D Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards which set a framework for what concepts, and skills should be mastered in math and English-Language Arts in K – 12 education. The National Science Teachers…
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Here, Jeff Brazil discusses entrepreneurial learning, making more concrete the abstraction that has been called “informal learning.”
YouTube is a goldmine for educational content if you can navigate its challenges and utilize its built-in features and settings.
From designing and documenting to publishing, drawing, and publishing, here are 23 ways to use the iPad for project-based learning.
Let’s follow the logic, since it holds some promise of solving vexing & persistent problems of boredom and ineffectiveness that we see daily.
Take quick surveys of what students think and want by asking them to respond via smartphone apps designed specifically for realtime feedback.
In our well-intended insistence to bring everyone up to “proficiency” via academic “standards,” there is also an automatic reductionism that occurs, whereby all of the known universe is distilled into a script of need to know. While the logic seems sounds–how can we know we’re educating students if we don’t know where the learning should begin or…
Choosing To Become A Special Education Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored post from online teacher certification programs at St. Joseph’s Online University Program Special education teachers, when asked, often state that getting their special education degree to work in this field is a personal calling as much as it is their career. Many aspiring special education…
Fear & Mourning in the Age of Digital Education by Susan Lucille Davis was originally published on Getting Smart. Recently, with the full support of my administration, I hoped to introduce a number of digital initiatives for my middle-grades students. In particular, I hoped to upgrade the teaching of language arts at my school to include…
Here are 20 considerations for challenging old, limited notions of learning spaces in order to move students into a 21st century economy.
Is your classroom ‘ready’ for iPads? What are the characteristics of a classroom or curriculum that can leverage the iPad’s features?
“The Flipped Classroom Turns Around an At-Risk, Failing School” by Greg Green, Principal at Clintondale High School, was originally published on Getting Smart. As a principal of Clintondale High School, I’ve witnessed firsthand the struggles that a school must endure to educate at-risk students. Many of the students at Clintondale are faced with obstacles that hinder their education:…