Responding To Criticisms Of The Common Core by Adam Blum, CEO of OpenEd Ed note: Supporting “commonness” or standardization isn’t a part of our mission at TeachThought, but we are interested in giving equal voice to diverse voices across education. Further, the majority of educators in the United States teach according to the Common Core…
Putting Technology At The Center Of Learning by Paul Moss Is your school still in the dark ages of #edtech? Does your school teach students with edtech only through an ICT subject, or does your school have a dedicated edtech agenda, with a strong focus on integration into the curriculum in general? As an English teacher,…
From Civ 5 and Portal 2 to Assassin’s Creed and Minecraft, here are 50 of the best video games for learning.
Schools for Hope is a free curriculum designed to prevent youth suicide by sharing tools to find & maintain hope.
Here are some examples of old education technology that have paved the way for the edtech of today, from the abacus to the very first tablet.
Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment By Andrew Smith Lewis New applications and technologies are now embedded into practically every aspect of the learning experience. Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a…
Do you want your PD effective, credible with staff, or affordable? Pick two — finding training that fits all 3 is a tremendous challenge.
How Empowerment Fosters Creativity by creativist.io Everyone has at least one story where they have witnessed the silencing of creativity. It might be a story where a teacher or a district policy confused joy with disruption. It might be a story where a child whose inner fire was lit by music and movement was forced…
“If that’s where they are, it’s where I must be, too.” contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Smartphone Owner And User Of Analog Clocks Analog clocks, cursive, Roman numerals, map reading. Memorizing times tables, dates, and battles. These skills were part of my K-12 curricula. They may soon go the way of quills and inkwells in favor of…
6 Tongue-In-Cheek Tips For Helicopter Parents That Help Too Much by Anonymous Practicing Teacher That Cares We’ve all been there. We’ve worked a long grueling day only to come home and find out our child has a project due the next day. We’ve argued and threatened punishment over said project. We’ve been too tired to…
While it will be impossible to prevent it altogether, there are ways to prevent cyberbullying–and strategies to respond when it does.
If we want to prepare students, we need to integrate, combine, and cut. Less is more. What’s most important in your curriculum?