3 Simple Strategies For More Rigorous Instruction by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word In this posting, we’ll look at options to increase the depth of your instruction. What you’ll notice throughout the activities is a shift to student ownership of learning, as well as the need to think at higher levels to…
Few understand what validity means in assessment and how it is determined. This confusion leads to various unhappy and important consequences.
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.
Because students necessarily create things with digital tools and images, the resulting creative expression is inherently student-centered.
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…
For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.
As we’ve theorized before, we could consider the definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.” One very natural and accessible way to see that kind of thinking in action is twitter. In contrast to relatively closed social media platforms like…
We need to prepare students for a world where borders are blurred and learning about other cultures is as ubiquitous as learning to read.
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?…
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
4 Strategies To Promote Smarter Grit In The Classroom by Jennifer Davis Bowman, Ed.D. Recently, “grit” has surfaced as one of the more popular concepts in the classroom. It is often associated with desirable characteristics such as motivation and determination. In examining experiences with student grit in my classroom, I began to wonder “Is grit…
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