7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
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Making Your Classroom More Like A Playground
Making Your Classroom Work More Like A Playground by TeachThought Staff Should classrooms be more like playgrounds? The playground is a place of whimsy, creativity, cognitive “ease,” and social interaction. It’s accessible, open, and fun. There may be some room for this type of thinking in a classroom, yes? Embedded in this thinking are a lot of the ideas…
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What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers
What technology does what? This edtech chart collects examples of edtech tools in a range of categories for teaching and learning.
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The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environments
The changing uses of technology require that teachers adapt their methods of instruction to support student-directed learning.
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Making the Shift To Visual Teaching
Shifting To Visual Teaching by Timothy Gangwer Ed note: This post is a preface to Timothy’s session at the International Conference of Creativity, Thinking & Education, April 18-20, 2015 at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota During a rehearsal of Debussy’s La Mer, Maestro Arturo Toscanini found himself unable to describe to the orchestra the effect he…
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10 Student Learning Objectives For The Teacher Not So Sure About This Hour Of Code Thing
10 Sample Student Learning Objectives For The Teacher That’s Not So Sure About This Hour Of Code Thing by TeachThought Staff You keep hearing about this hour of code thing, but you’re not a “hacker,” and aren’t real comfortable with teaching what you don’t know. Especially when it relates to technology and its fundamental programming. You…
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11 Classic Hip-Hop Songs You Can Teach With
In short, the evolution of hip-hop as an art form, critical cultural voice, and medium to reach youth is a complex & hugely ‘human’ concept.
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The Best Kind Of Summer Slide: A Summer Bucket List
The Best Kind Of Summer Slide: A Summer Bucket List contributed by Corrine Jacob, alternatetutelage Our family has all but forgotten the ghost of winter past. We are now basking in the glow of this glorious, glorious summer weather. If you’re a homeschooler like me, your mind is currently occupied with scheduling activities so that the…
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13 Very Different Tools To Help Students Find Their Voice
Here are 6 different possibilities to help students find their voices, rom those text-based to artistic, dramatic to digital.
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The Difference Between Gamification And Game-Based Learning
The definition of gamification is the application of game-like mechanics to non-game entities to encourage a specific behavior.
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How Passionate Teaching Breeds Innovative Learning
contributed by AJ Juliani John Maeda grew up working in his family’s Seattle tofu store in the 1980s. He was a bright and curious student who self-taught himself some computer coding in high school with no internet to learn from. Like many high school students he had dreams, but very little direction. Getting good grades, working…
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Teach Like Minecraft: 5 Strategies To Craft Creative Students
Teach Like Minecraft: 5 Strategies To Craft Creative Students by Terry Heick At this point, some of you are probably sick of hearing about Minecraft. It has gone from game to phenomenon, selling bajillions of copies and crowding the mindscape of 6th graders everywhere for what seems like centuries. But before you go, there may…
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5 Resolutions To Modernize Your Teaching For 2014
5 Resolutions To Modernize Your Teaching In 2014 by Jennifer Rita Nichols, Teacher When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, we all hear about the typical weight/health/finance related promises we make to ourselves – but why not use this yearly changeover to make some classroom promises instead? We can all use some new goals, and…
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How To Help Your Students Embrace Failure Through Game-Based Learning
Help Your Students Embrace Failure Through Game-Based Learning contributed by Justin W. Marquis, Ph.D. Whether our students fear the dark, monsters, heights, some other imagined horror, or something more real such as family troubles or bullying, everyone is afraid of something. For students in our schools those fears probably include something that is an inherent…
