How To Start Your Own Blog: A Step-By-Step Guide For Teachers
One of the best education philosophies is collegiality. Without cooperation, teachers can’t remain vibrant members of a class community.
One of the best education philosophies is collegiality. Without cooperation, teachers can’t remain vibrant members of a class community.
The Changing Landscape For Libraries & Librarians In The Digital Age by Frankie Rendon, librarysciencedegree.usc.edu The advent of the Internet has placed the need for libraries, and librarians under scrutiny. Now that everything in print is available online, do we really need physical libraries and librarians anymore? Of course we do…now, more than ever before. According…
Introducing Competitive Leagues–For Creativity Image: Releasing Our Inner Beast, Jaden N., Barrow High School, Alaska. From Game 2 – (We Are) Animals By John Sobol, Media League Commissioner The Media League (www.themedialeague.com) is a unique and innovative new educational program – a competitive creativity league for high schools – that is just like a varsity sports league, except that instead of…
Compared to physical texts, digital resources and online tools provide a broader array of information about words and word meanings.
If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of them would simply say: boring.
At age 10, Gabriel worked on T-cell receptor research and studied synthetic biology for undergraduate college students at MIT.
These 11 apps can be used in BYOD classes to keep the focus on content and publication, rather than digital fences that distract institutions.
Public Participation In The Arts Data Reflects Digital Shift The National Endowment for the Arts has released data from the 2012 Survey for Public Participation in the Arts, and there are some interesting trends. More than 70% of American adults accessed electronic media, 1 in 4 adults now share photography online (see Instagram and facebook), and…
Questioning In The eLearning Environment by Rosa Fattahi, WizIQ As discussed in A Primer in Effective Questioning, Part I, it is important that traditional and eLearning teachers employ a variety of question types that address a range of intellectual skills. Questions should not only be used to assess student comprehension of the material, but also…
At their core, MOOCs can speak to the best, altruistic nature of educators by allowing them to share their knowledge freely with the world.
Using Instagram For Learning To Document Abstract Ideas The use of Instagram in education may not make seem entirely logical, but just as social media and text messaging have made it almost seamless to send (inundate?) friends with messages, modern technology has made it more natural than ever to share images and videos with others…
4 Key Strengths Of Tablets As Learning Tools by Rose Cauilan As the classroom quickly evolves into the 21st century, it should come as no surprise that portable devices are becoming an increasingly important part of a child’s education. Tips for teaching with tablets is something TeachThought has taken a look at before, and their momentum…