7 Characteristics Of Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology
Teachers who effectively use technology in the classroom have one thing in common: They care more about learning than the tools that cause it.
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No Student Is Unreachable
Students who are challenging–i.e. victims of disruptive childhoods–do not change overnight. They require time to grow.
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42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.
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7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid
Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?
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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, artifacts, credible sources, and thinking on relevant topics.
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8 Principles Of Gamified Learning
Gamified instruction uses the mechanics, engines, and underpinning strategies games use to encourage play to encourage learning.
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The Genius Hour Design Cycle: A Process For Planning
Some projects will clearly take longer than you have available, others are too large in scale or rely on the involvement of too many people.
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10 Resources For A Student-Centered 1:1 Program
Educators know sometimes the best resource for embarking on new initiatives is other educators.
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5 Reasons To Use Digital Portfolios In Your Classroom
Despite progress, many students continue to decorate folders for papers. This isn’t our best thinking around student portfolios.
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Technology Is Now As Much A Part Of Learning As Reading & Writing
The technology students use today will be the worst they ever use. That’s a useful starting point for understanding education technology.
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Helping Students Fail: A Framework
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO–failing gives the data needed to proceed.
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5 Tips To Help Students Arrive At Their Own Understandings
Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the kind of groundwork.
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4 Principles Of Student-Centered Learning
Student-centered learning puts the needs of the students over the conveniences of planning, policy, and procedure.
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Teaching Introverts Is Different
Why Teaching Introverts Is Different by Terry Heick As education seeks to improve itself, the focus has been on data, research, and curriculum. The stuff teachers use. There is precious little discussion on the human elements of learning unless you’re discussing isolated movements such as social-emotional learning or whole-child trends. While admirable, these “movements” are…
