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8 Games For Game-Based Learning

There is a disconnect between what students learn while playing games and the academic standards most teachers are interested in promoting.

Key principles of collaboration in learning include balancing individual & group benefit, thinking strategy before tech, & always evolving.

Teaching / June 8, 2013

No matter how progressive you get in your teaching, grading papers–somewhere, somehow–is a part of what you do. Even non-ELA/Literature/Composition

Technology / June 7, 2013

Using an iPad filled with educational apps in the classroom does not dictate that you’re a great techie teacher. Instead

As a teacher, it can be inspiring to look into other classrooms. Whether you’re looking for ideas, or just want

When we search, we often first reach for Google–and rightfully so. But by using Google students and teachers are unwittingly

Communicate with students today also means encouraging learning dialogue by using forms with which students are comfortable.

Seven points we view as systemically underserved could, if better addressed, enhance children’s thinking as they mature.

How does that student see him or herself–as a student? As a learner? How we self-identify academically lays the groundwork

5 Videos That Describe New Learning by TeachThought Staff What new learning actually is depends on who you talk to.

Visual notes–also know as Sketch notes–look cool, but they also contain considerable cognitive potential, forcing learners to combine both left