A Planning Guide For Project-Based Learning In The Elementary Classroom
PBL Spotlight: 5th Grade Restaurant Math Tipping Guide contributed by Drew Perkins Every year since their kindergarten years I have extended my offer to teachers of my daughters to help out in any way they might find useful. Some of…
Facebook Now Using Artificial Intelligence To Predict Teen Suicide
Facebook Now Using AI To Predict Teen Suicide by TeachThought Staff On November 27, 2017, Mark Zuckerberg announced plans—through a Facebook post—to use an emerging technology (Artificial Intelligence) to help predict and prevent teen suicide. Social media, bullying, identity, and…
Learning Is The Ultimate Disruption
Why Learning Is The Ultimate Disruption It is the work of a school to join members of a community to one another. That this doesn’t happen naturally isn’t surprising. Matters of curriculum, instruction, and assessment are often alien to the…
5 Easy Ways To Engage Students In Learning
5 Easy Ways To Engage Students In Learning contributed by Rachelle Dene Poth As a teacher, I am always looking out for new ideas, tools, and innovative methods to Engage Students In Learning. Here are five ideas that I tried…
12 Realities That May Break Public Education As We Know It
12 Ideas That Will Probably Break Education by Terry Heick As the education changes, it depends primarily on internal catalysts for that change. That is, the ‘things’ that change it are on the ‘inside’ of that system itself, most notably…
Money Matters: 3 Financial Literacy Lessons
3 Financial Literacy Lessons For Students contributed by Jess Holmes As educators, we are responsible for more than just passing on knowledge and formulas; we are thought-makers and soul-crafters. Also, we should be able to give students some practical know-how,…
Why Teachers Are The Sleeping Giant In The Fight For Net Neutrality
Why Teachers Are The Sleeping Giant In The Fight For Net Neutrality by Terry Heick On December 14th, 2017, the FCC plans to vote on a movement to end net neutrality. While I recall wistfully my childhood without an internet…