Knowledge Demands Change Faster Than Every Other Part Of Education
Give me a curriculum based on people–based on their habits and thinking patterns in their native places and a genuine need to understand.
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Exactly How To Teach With Video Games In The Classroom
Video games are increasingly used to confront social and cultural issues that are otherwise problematic to address with a raging troll-fest.
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A Model For Teaching And Learning With iPads
How can the iPad promote a broader set of evidence of understanding? How can it promote the assessment of higher-order thinking skills?
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Assuming The Best: The Power Of Teaching Through Positive Assumption
Of course, you won’t always be correct but the goal of these kinds of positive assumptions isn’t accuracy, it’s giving children room to grow.
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11 Personalized Learning Strategies That Work
A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.
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How To Teach Empathy In The Classroom
Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”
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How Class Learning Is Different Than Real-World Learning
In school, learning is externally prompted by a quality judge, rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application in real-world learning.
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The Underlying Assumptions Of A Curriculum
One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.
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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
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How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.
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63 Things Every Student Should Know In A Digital World
In an increasingly digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing–sometimes drastically.
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The Relationship Between Quality And Effect
What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.
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What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read
Some readers may think they dislike the process of reading but everyone loves ideas–and reading is a wonderful strategy to find them.
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Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
