Are You Teaching Content Or Teaching Thought?
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
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Mandating The Posting Of Learning Targets & Other Mindless Policies
The bottom line test of the effect of any school policy about goal posting is whether or not students learn better because of it.
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20 Of The Best Tools For Creativity In The Classroom
Because students necessarily create things with digital tools and images, the resulting creative expression is inherently student-centered.
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10 Common Misconceptions About The Flipped Classroom
What Are The Most Common Misconceptions About The Flipped Classroom? by Kelly Walsh, emergingedtech.com What have you heard about the
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10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation
For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.
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10 Digital Citizenship Hashtags To Join The Conversation
As we’ve theorized before, we could consider the definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption
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7 Global Education Facts & Statistics That Reflect A Changing World
We need to prepare students for a world where borders are blurred and learning about other cultures is as ubiquitous as learning to read.
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2 Simple Strategies To Bring Technology To The Common Core
2 Simple Strategies To Bring Technology To The Common Core contributed by Jeremy Hyler As the discussions about the Common Core
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The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
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4 Strategies To Promote Smarter Grit In The Classroom
4 Strategies To Promote Smarter Grit In The Classroom by Jennifer Davis Bowman, Ed.D. Recently, “grit” has surfaced as one
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Crowdsourcing In Education: 11 Underlying Principles
by Chris Yim, UClass.io Crowsourcing is huge in other industries, but has yet to affect education It doesnt make sense that teachers
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5 Questions To Evaluate Curriculum For Rigor
Evaluate Curriculum For Rigor With These 5 Questions by Barbara Blackburn, author of Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word Last week, we
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