Pairing Teachers To Improve Professional Development contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Professional development isn’t something that many teachers look forward to. By thinking about activities that engage teachers and bring motivation back into professional learning, schools make leaps and bounds in building a community that uses its own expertise to become stronger and…
A collection of teacher-approved Common Core-aligned math apps for middle school students, such as DragonBox, BrainPOP, and others.
What Are The Benefits Of Game-Based Learning? by TeachThought Staff This post has been updated, adding additional information. There seems to be a perception that online gaming has a detrimental impact on children’s development. Nothing could be further from the truth, and there are countless–and complex–reasons for this, but it also makes sense to the…
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
While iOS remains the system of choice for most developers, learning with apps is as accessible on Android devices as it is on the iPad.
Education is at its strongest when learners are at the center of the process and can exercise their choices about what happens.
Most learning profiles are quick glances of academic data. There’s nothing wrong with this. They are useful, but they are also limited.
“Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it.” –Wendell Berry
This is a diverse collection of apps, from games to digital media software to math and literacy apps.
Brainstorming for problem-based learning: Which ‘parts’ of the world would most benefit from my creativity, affection, and sustained effort?
The phases of project-based learning include project planning, launch, implementation, conclusion, and debriefing.
contributed by Candice Liu Teaching is difficult. To reduce the load, what every teacher need depends on the exact context of their position, but all teachers need engaging and easy to use tools. And, increasingly, video is what engages students. This makes video editing tools a natural fit for the classroom. Why Should Teachers Use…