Is The Future Of Reading Not Reading At All? The Impact Of Visual & Social Literacy by Terry Heick Slate recently stumbled upon an infographic that mapped the civil war. And it’s 100 years old. (See below.) You can find a proper zoomable version for careful study at the Library of Congress. In short, it’s a wonderfully…
Deeper Learning: A Definition And A Free Course For Teachers The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Laura McBain and Ryan Gallagher of High-Tech High, a public charter school based in San Diego, on their upcoming MOOC, “Deeper Learning”, hosted by P2PU starting January 20, 2014. Interview by Charlie Chung of Class…
There are many forms of performance tasks: short and long constructed response, drawings and videos, interview.
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…
Student voice and choice, publishing, and a driving question are some of the essential ingredients of project-based learning.
How I Approach Global Learning In My Classroom by Neven Valev, Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University As the world becomes ever more connected, many universities and high schools have made efforts to “globalize” their curriculum. That is a worthy goal but achieving it is not easy. Developing global content is time consuming for…
…Nonetheless, the above framework can help support the teacher in a blended classroom in promoting student motivation
What students should know starts with themselves and moves outwards to a content area. Here are questions students should be able to answer.
Writing promotes the brain’s attentive focus & long-term memory, illuminates patterns, and gives the brain time for reflection.
Becoming A Mentor In Your Own Classroom by Jane Healey, Ph.D. Most educators have heard the current mantra about their role in the classroom: teachers are not delivery systems, filling empty vessels with acquired bits of knowledge. The image of a master in the front of a room lecturing to students furiously scribbling copious notes…
Areas important in memory consolidation and retrieval such as the amygdala, hippocampus, and basal ganglion, can be ‘exercised.’
Key principles of collaboration in learning include balancing individual & group benefit, thinking strategy before tech, & always evolving.
Seven points we view as systemically underserved could, if better addressed, enhance children’s thinking as they mature.
Student-to-Material Interaction: Effective PBL Learning In The Online Or Blended Classroom In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2, he looked specifically at student-to-student interaction, and the reality of synchronous and asynchronous access. In part 3, he looked at…