What To Tell Students You’ll Never See Again
Teaching binds teacher and student together even if that binding isn’t made in mutual affection. To teach and learn is to come together.
Moving Up? 4 Tips For Managing Your Career As A Teacher
Here are some of the best insights for educators hoping to advance their career, whether in their current district or by relocating.
Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
What Technology Does What: An #edtech Chart For Teachers
What technology does what? This edtech chart collects examples of edtech tools in a range of categories for teaching and learning.
The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environments
The changing uses of technology require that teachers adapt their methods of instruction to support student-directed learning.
Teacher Reader Responses, Vol. 1: On Literacy
We’re sharing the insightful, detailed, emotional, or otherwise compelling reader responses in some intermittent pattern.
An EdTech Primer: Technology Use, Benefits, And Online Safety Tips
An EdTech Primer: Technology Use, Benefits, And Online Safety Tips contributed by Amy Williams Today, many parents can pinpoint one significant difference between their child’s education and our own–technology. Granted, we overhear complaints about Common Core or standardized tests, but the major difference is the influx of technology in education–the internet, computers, apps, and social…
Making the Shift To Visual Teaching
Shifting To Visual Teaching by Timothy Gangwer Ed note: This post is a preface to Timothy’s session at the International Conference of Creativity, Thinking & Education, April 18-20, 2015 at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota During a rehearsal of Debussy’s La Mer, Maestro Arturo Toscanini found himself unable to describe to the orchestra the effect he…
The Difference Between Googling And Inquiry-Based Learning
Search is about finding pieces, knowledge is about knowing the potential value of those pieces.
Every Teacher Is A Vocabulary Teacher
Vocabulary is a matter of meaning and degrees of meaning, which means it cannot be the ‘job’ of a single content area or teacher.
A Single Set Of National Standards Is Just Creepy
Our fascination with uniformity has something to do with our constant need to “scale” everything across billions and billions of people.
What Is A Learning Simulation?
Learning Simulations: An Overview This post has been updated from a 2012 post. Clark Aldrich is an enthusiastic advocate for new learning forms, and leading thinker on the power of learning simulations and author of Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds and Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education. (These…
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