High School History Teachers Lecture Too Much by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his most memorable…
Meet the world’s cutest kindergarten, designed by Takaharu Tezuka. In this talk, he walks us through a design process that lets kids be kids.
What I Really Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education While exploring teacher effectiveness ratings, I went looking for a New York City high school that had the same demographic profile as the struggling high school referenced previously (see here), but had nonetheless earned good ratings for making adequate improvement on their graduation rates and…
Teachers need to feel competent and comfortable being a guide at each step of flipped, inquiry-based learning.
Conditional knowledge includes knowing when and why to apply various actions. This is crucial to the ongoing transfer of learning.
A Univ. of Missouri researcher developed a scale that quantifies student engagement, which can help identify barriers to participation.
Putting Technology At The Center Of Learning by Paul Moss Is your school still in the dark ages of #edtech? Does your school teach students with edtech only through an ICT subject, or does your school have a dedicated edtech agenda, with a strong focus on integration into the curriculum in general? As an English teacher,…
From Civ 5 and Portal 2 to Assassin’s Creed and Minecraft, here are 50 of the best video games for learning.
How Empowerment Fosters Creativity by creativist.io Everyone has at least one story where they have witnessed the silencing of creativity. It might be a story where a teacher or a district policy confused joy with disruption. Â It might be a story where a child whose inner fire was lit by music and movement was forced…
If we want to prepare students, we need to integrate, combine, and cut. Less is more. What’s most important in your curriculum?
Teachers are using technology to teach reading, arguing that interactive video games provide the skills that students need to be able to read.
How To Launch A New Idea For Your School by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This is a slightly-edited excerpt from a post by Grant on differentiation and the implementation of policy. Looking for a process to avoid bad implementation of what very well might be a good idea? A new literacy program, curriculum framework, technology,…
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