What Are The Best Ways To Manage Intergenerational Communication? It never occurred to us that phone calls could be considered an “invasion of privacy.” Even after years of telemarketers punishing our telephones at the absolute worst times, the phone has been the way you communicate with someone in any enduring or substantive way. But every…
What’s on your bucket list? Publishing a book? Seeing your child’s wedding? Starting your own school? How about drinking clean water?
If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of them would simply say: boring.
Video games’ time in the public spotlight is usually brief, and tangled with discussions on children, violence, and Constitutional rights.
Rather than “gamifying” a unit, Mia MacMeekin’s graphic promotes building a unit centered around a game and featuring game-like mechanics.
Learn how to save, understand, monitor, and invest with 12 of the best financial literacy apps and resources for students.
What Are Some Unique Maker Education Resources For Teaching & Learning? by Mike Acedo 1. http://makezine.com/ Makezine.com is a major hub for the maker’s movement, providing amateur makers and educators with a plethora of information, resources, and project ideas to implement for themselves, or in their classrooms. 2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/This UK based tech company seeks to provide children…
Few educators need a deep grasp of neurology, but a working knowledge of the more common neuroscience terms for teachers could be useful.
Student-Led Writing: How & Why I Let Students Lead The Writing Process by Jane Healey, Ph. D Recently, I threw out old curriculum for the book, Frankenstein, and I designed a unit based on strategies gleaned from articles and posts about flipping classrooms, encouraging students to own their learning, and inquiry-based education. A totally new approach…
A collection of teacher-recommended tools to make learning fun, engaging, and interactive in your classroom.
These are some of the best motivational videos for students to help with mindset and perspective–seeing the commonality in human experience.
A Free Resource For Teaching With The Arts From a press release from The Music Center in Los Angeles: In a move designed to support arts education in schools, The Music Center today announced the launch of a free online arts curriculum, Artsource®: The Music Center’s Study Guide to the Performing Arts, an easily accessible…