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12 Realities That Are Reducing Innovation In Schools

Public education isn’t naturally built for innovation. Here are some of the barriers that are reducing innovation in schools.

Here are 30 ways to use Google search in the classroom to help improve students’ ability to self-direct the digital research search process.

By deciding what stays & what goes in the near-future classroom, what’s worth understanding & what’s not, teachers have quite a bit of power.

Teaching / August 28, 2019 March 8, 2021 / Admin, Essential, Trending

Some teachers still have trouble showing vulnerability–especially if they feel unable to keep up with the incredible demands of teaching.

Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.

Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.

While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.

In this particular future of classroom technology, there are three distinct domains/learning spaces: Classroom, Studio, and Virtual.

There are many ways to encourage a child but persistent, well-timed, positive messages are among the most powerful.

Critical thinking is widely misunderstood. Apps that promote it can be hard to find. Here are 25 critical thinking apps to get you started.

Using The SAMR Model To Frame How To Teach With Apps by TeachThought Staff Not all apps are created equal. …