Can Technology Replace Teachers?
Effective use of technology can reduce teacher workload, enable new instructional strategies, and improve student performance.
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Don’t Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why
Increasingly, books aren’t thought of as entertainment or even as ways to learn; they are thought of in terms of their form: as books.
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It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom
Limiting the craft of writing in the classroom to a single content area has damaged the perceived power and potential of writing.
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SRE And CEI: Easy To Use Writing Strategies For The Classroom
SRE is an initialism representing three central tenets of argument making: Statement, Reason, Evidence (or Example, Explain, or Expand).
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On Incrementalism As The Primary Method For Change In Education
Incrementalism is the process of change by small degrees. Gradualism. This is also the process education has chosen for improvement.
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The World Is Changing; Let Schools Change, Too
The world is changing — let schools become something that works for children, something that visibly improves the arc of their lives.
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How To Fake A 21st Century Classroom
Creativity is a 21st-century teaching and learning currency–and the best way to make sure it happens is to give points for it.
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How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do
So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.
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Grade Differently: 7 Categories To Create Learning Badges
The effect of well-designed learning badges is a kind of encouragement mechanic that helps students see their own progress.
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Will You Still Be Teaching Next Year?
Ask yourself if teaching is good for you. Healthy. Sustainable. What you want to do and be. A lot has changed in education. A lot.
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The Difference Between Logical Fallacies And Cognitive Biases
The difference between fallacies and biases is a matter of timing: fallacies are real-time thinking errors while biases are pre-dispositions for future errors.
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9 Indicators Of Authentic Mobile Learning [Updated]
Designing instruction around tablets requires some slight shifts in how you view when, why, and how learning happens.
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3 Simple Strategies For Smarter Curriculum Mapping
What Are 3 Simple Strategies For Smarter Curriculum Mapping? by Terry Heick The school year isn’t a series of sprints, but the way you forge your curriculum can make it feel that way. The most common way of structuring how you teach is by first assembling standards into units, then those units into lessons. You…
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A Troublesome Contradiction Between Transparency & Learning Innovation
Learning produces long-term and often invisible results–few of which are illuminated with the most common learning outcomes and artifacts.
