7 Characteristics Of Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology
Teachers who effectively use technology in the classroom have one thing in common: They care more about learning than the tools that cause it.
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42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.
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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, artifacts, credible sources, and thinking on relevant topics.
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6 Golden Rules For Engaging Students
A good start toward engaging students is to meet the student on their own terms using ideas, evidence, and language credible to them.
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Technology Is Now As Much A Part Of Learning As Reading & Writing
The technology students use today will be the worst they ever use. That’s a useful starting point for understanding education technology.
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Why The Best Teachers Change Their Minds
If you’re changing your mind—about inquiry, the ideal lesson template, or the best audiences for project-based learning products—that means you’re growing.
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How Much Freedom Should A Teacher Have?
Where should there be obligation and where should there be freedom in choice of pedagogy, models, and curriculum?
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5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions
How To Help Students Ask Better Questions There’s nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student better than being able to ask the right question at the right time. In “Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers,” I said that “Questioning is the art of…
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A Teacher Makes 1500 Educational Decisions A Day
A teacher makes over 1500 educational decisions every school day, a constant juggle of manager, content holder, master communicator, and support system.
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9 Rules For Digital Citizenship
We’ve offered a definition for digital citizenship. This graphic takes that idea and adds general advice for what it looks like in action.
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A Teacher Writes A Brutally Honest Letter To Parents & Politicians
In an Open Letter to Oklahoma Voters and Lawmakers, Oklahoma teacher Steven Wedel writes a plea to parents and politicians.
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20 Tips For A More Organized Classroom
Rather than pass out papers to the students all day, or try to ensure they receive important notes, invest in a mailbox for the classroom.
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6 Rising Technology Trends In Public School Classrooms
To safeguard future economic prosperity, the US has to ensure that its curriculum helps students develop the skills that they need.
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4 Things Innovative Schools Have In Common
Innovative schools connect with the outside world, view students as people, design creative learning spaces & encourage critical thinking.
