Explain When You’re Creative by Danielle Shanley, Director of Curriculum & Instruction for the New Milford Public Schools Below is an assignment recently given to a 10th grade classroom. The assignment was inspired by Ken Robinson’s The Element. As you may remember, Ken Robinson defines The Element in the first book you read earlier this…
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In this graphic, Mia MacMeekin frames the idea of personalized learning around the who/what/where/why/when series of questions.
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Mobile teaching is about planning and executing learning through mobile devices. Here are 25 examples of how to accomplish that.
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When someone hears a language they’re not familiar, it sounds–well, weird. This is what English sounds like to non-English speakers.