10 Ways To Use SmartFeed In Your Classroom by the SmartFeed Team Today’s parents are second only to teachers in braving the explosive – and exciting world of technology + kids. With expansive digital content, shifting media formats and mounting numbers of screens in little hands – materials for any curriculum are quite literally endless. […]
How To Use The Text Reduction Strategy To Improve Reading Comprehension by Andrea Heick ed note: This is a sponsored post by Scholastic Magazines. They asked us to write about anything we thought would be useful to teachers using Scholastic Magazine as a reading material, so we asked a teacher in a rural Kentucky school […]
A Google Chrome Deployment Guide For Schools by TeachThought Staff Considering Google Chromebooks for your schools or district? Interested in what the rollout might look like, as opposed to Windows devices or iOS? Or maybe you’re ready to deploy them and want to know what to look for–updating to the latest version of Chrome, handling […]
3 Crucial Tips To Build A Blended Learning Plan That Works by Janice Heffernan, Teacher As educators strive to provide robust, relevant instruction to every student, schools are constantly seeking innovative methods by which to deliver that instruction. In a blended learning model, educators combine face-to-face education with online learning to develop such innovations in […]
11 Activities Using Infographics And Data To Teach The Election by Dawn Casey-Rowe Are you using infographics to explain or teach the election? If not, you might want to consider giving it a shot. The election is a treasure trove for infographics and data representation. There are so many things to analyze during election season–candidates, issues, […]
Ep 13: How Do We Actually Change Schools? by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought Professional Development This is episode 13 of the TeachThought Podcast! In this episode Drew Perkins (Director of Professional Development at TeachThought) talks with nationally recognized thought leader Grant Lichtman about why schools should change and how to make those changes. Interested in growing with TeachThought […]
How To Design A 21st Century Assessment by Mike Fisher Contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets: engaging 21st Century skills, using digital tools, collaborating with others around the globe, performance tasks, and more. Getting these design elements into a teacher’s current curriculum demands that teachers create professional habits around Replacement Thinking. In my book Digital […]
How To Create Your Own Digital Rubik’s Cube Contact Us To Bring TeachThought Professional Development To Your Site! by TeachThought Staff Want to create your own Rubik’s Cube? Of course you do. And now you can, and right from your web browser thanks to the Chrome Cube Lab. On this interactive site, you can create a […]