Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain
The feeling that I get observing students learning for themselves and assuming ownership of their experience is pure joy.

The feeling that I get observing students learning for themselves and assuming ownership of their experience is pure joy.

There are many ways to encourage a child but persistent, well-timed, positive messages are among the most powerful.
This Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy helps teachers evaluate and design digital tasks like ChatGPT use, blogging, podcasting, and more.
Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgment while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions.

The 40/40/40 rule: What’s important that students understand for the next 40 days, for the next 40 months, for the next 40 years?

By deciding what stays & what goes in the near-future classroom, what’s worth understanding & what’s not, teachers have quite a bit of power.

If schools serve students and students are deeply embedded in the fabric of communities, how can we serve those students without knowing those communities?

In this particular future of classroom technology, there are three distinct domains/learning spaces: Classroom, Studio, and Virtual.
In this list, we’ve collected posters, apps, definitions, apps, tools, videos and strategies and more to help teachers use Bloom’s Taxonomy.

A flipped teacher PD program could inform the kinds of conferences and on-site PD most relevant and authentic to your local circumstances.
Minecraft in Education: What Minecraft Can Teach You About Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff Minecraft is a simple, clumsy-looking little game full of blocky graphics and unclear terms of play. It is essentially a giant sandbox of digital legos that players can do with what they wish–tear stuff down, dig holes, or build dizzying towers of…

Here, we highlight a few edtech incubators that are making waves in the world today, a list that’s sure to grow rapidly over the next decade.

Critical thinking is widely misunderstood. Apps that promote it can be hard to find. Here are 25 critical thinking apps to get you started.