13 Tools To Make Your Classroom More Fun
A collection of teacher-recommended tools to make learning fun, engaging, and interactive in your classroom.
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How To Engage Boys In The Classroom
Engaging male students can be a challenge.
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Resources & Expectations For Creating A Smarter MOOC
At their core, MOOCs can speak to the best, altruistic nature of educators by allowing them to share their knowledge freely with the world.
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Why Career & Technical Education Are Important
contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Why Career & Technical Education Are Important “What do we do with this stuff we’re learning?” Career & Technical Education answers that question. At many schools, students learn higher-level subjects, but they might not learn where to apply the lessons. At a CTE school, applying the knowledge is…
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How Good Teachers Decenter Themselves
How Good Teachers Decenter Themselves by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education As teachers we understandably believe that it is the ‘teaching’ that causes learning. But this is too egocentric a formulation. As I said in my previous post, the learner’s attempts to learn causes all learning. The teaching is a stimulus; the attempted learning (or lack of it) is the…
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Digital Media Can Change The Tone Of Learning
Digital Media Can Change Learning by TeachThought Staff Digital media is really more powerful than we’re giving it credit for. And it already gets a lot of credit. While “social” media gets all the praise, social media is itself digital, with the digital versions of films, music, magazines, images, and other stuff holding inherent characteristics that…
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Six Steps to Developing Your Own 21st Century Educational Technology
We have an opportunity to truly customize and build our classrooms in a manner that can help us achieve our goals and reach our students.
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25 Ways To Promote Passion-Based Learning In Your Classroom
When students are passionately engaged in their learning there are myriad brain responses making connections and building schema.
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What Teaching Writing In The 21st Century Might Look Like
So I was looking through an old Animal Farm unit of mine when I found some notes I had written that sketch a basic outline for a “writing” unit (i.e., a unit designed primarily to produce a piece of writing that’s gone through the entire writing process) from my second year of teaching. Rough as…
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A Learning Simulation For Science & Social Studies: Plan It Green
Plan It Green helps students learn about time & resource management while interacting in a city building learning simulation game.
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8 Tips For Integrating Pop Culture In The Classroom
When you see a Lady Gaga music video, do you think of it as a teachable material for your classroom? Probably not. But for some visionary teachers, pop culture is a useful tool that can help get students interested and engaged in learning, and even offer resources for better understanding classroom material. Why Teach Pop…
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36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do
From taking screenshots to appreciating memes here are things every 21st century teacher should be able to do.
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Youth And Digital Learning: Are Kids Different Because Of Digital Media?
The brute force of social media, combined with the incredible access to–and engaging nature of–digital media like video games, videos, and film–are undoubtedly impacting the way students learn. The very nature–in duration, tone, form, and nuance–of the media they consume hasn’t just “changed” (which implies a single change) but is in a constant state of…
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You Probably Misunderstand Feedback For Learning
Who could argue with the idea that formative assessment is a good thing?
