Who To Follow On Twitter: 15 #edtech Personalities
If you’re choosy about where and with whom you engage, social media can enrich your teaching experience in ways you may not have imagined.
Are You Teaching Content Or Teaching Thought?
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom
Google Finance: Enter information from Google Finance into spreadsheets with this formula Syntax: =GoogleFinance(“symbol”; “attribute”).
Teaching Creativity With Doodle 4 Google
Through Doodle 4 Google, students across the country are learning how professional creators harness and channel their imaginations.
20 Of The Best Tools For Creativity In The Classroom
Because students necessarily create things with digital tools and images, the resulting creative expression is inherently student-centered.
10 Common Misconceptions About The Flipped Classroom
What Are The Most Common Misconceptions About The Flipped Classroom? contributed by Kelly Walsh, emergingedtech.com What have you heard about the flipped classroom? That it’s just the latest education fad? That it only works for certain academic subjects? It’s not uncommon to come across references in the web media to poorly informed and misconstrued ideas…
11 Of The Best YouTube Channels For Learning English
What Are The Best YouTube Channels For Learning English? by Andrea Giordano It’s no secret that YouTube is an English language learner’s best friend. Because ESL/ELL teachers have been willing to turn the cameras on themselves, you can find thousands of lessons to help improve your English. However, sometimes it’s difficult to know where the true gold is among…
Actually Achieving Close Reading With Digital Tools
As we think about how reading habits change & how to support students in print & digital spaces, I hope you’ll model reading practices.
2 Simple Strategies To Bring Technology To The Common Core
2 Simple Strategies To Bring Technology To The Common Core contributed by Jeremy Hyler As the discussions about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) intensify within the states that have adopted them, there is another thought lurking in the corner of some, if not most teacher’s minds. How am I going to integrate technology into my classroom?…
Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom
A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom Disruptive thinking is a useful thing. It encourages difficult questions, conversations, and rethinking of trends and directions. It isn’t always a comfortable thing, usually occurring when other strategies for change have failed. Computer hackers–the principled, noble hackers with specific goals and a moral code anyway–take the same approach, in the…
A Primer On Using Games To Teach
A Primer On Using Games To Teach by Rosa Fattahi, WizIQ A key element to ensuring any successful pedagogy is student engagement. However, keeping students motivated and actively involved can be difficult. Besides the basic challenges of maintaining students’ interest and participation in class, today’s teachers also have to deal with growing numbers of students…
The Definition Of The Flipped Classroom
The definition of a Flipped Classroom is to preview new content at home & practice it at school where teachers & peers are available to help.
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