Supporting Deeper Learning in the Classroom
For today’s students to effectively compete in the global workforce, they must develop the skills, understandings, and mindsets necessary to prepare them for the careers and challenges of tomorrow. This means more than learning to read and write – it means being able to master academic content and apply that knowledge across contexts in a meaningful way.
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22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom
22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom
If you don’t have children, you may not have noticed the massive changes going on in the local schoolhouse. Those geeky tech tools that we adults like to avoid are taking over the classroom. Every year, students face new iPads, apps, online grading systems, webtools, digital devices, LMSs, cloud-based homework, digital portfolios, and more.
What are the 21st-century skills every student needs?
What are the 21st-century skills every student needs?
Will classes in curiosity, problem-solving and creative thinking soon be on the curriculum? Our latest report thinks it should.
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters
Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters
The authors offer a framework-based on three years of campus visits-for thinking about (1) the circumstances under which personalized learning can help students and (2) the best way to evaluate the real educational value for products that are marketed under the personalized learning banner.
The Benefits Of Blended Learning
The Benefits Of Blended Learning –
The Benefits Of Blended Learning by April Giarla The teaching landscape is rapidly changing, the technological rise of the 21 st century and widespread integration of those technologies into our society, combined with access to the internet has integrally changed teaching in just a few years.
Stop Innovating in Schools. Please.
Stop Innovating in Schools. Please. – Modern Learning
Too often when we talk about “innovation” in education, we point to that new set of Chromebooks or those shiny new Smartboards as examples of our efforts to change what we do in the classroom. That is, after all, what “innovation” is all about, to “make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas, or products.”
Is Teaching Style an Ethical Issue? A Perspective on Using Digital Resources in the Classroom
Is Teaching Style an Ethical Issue? A Perspective on Using Digital Resources in the Classroom
Upon first reading the article “Is Embracing Digital Learning a Moral Issue for Educators?” by Wesley Fryer published on www.SpeedofCreativity.org , I was quick to believe that the subject is being blown out of proportion. To regard a teacher’s choice not to be a “21st Century educator” by using digital resources as immoral or unethical seems rash and inappropriate.
Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework–And What You Can Do About It –
Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework–And What You Can Do About It –
Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework-And What You Can Do About It by Dr. Jennifer Davis Bowman ‘ That was homework?’ ‘That’s due today?’ ‘But… it was the weekend.’ We hear a lot of stuff when students don’t do their homework. Our cup runneth over with FBI-proof, puppy-dog eyes, procrastinated-filled homework excuses.
20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Learners
20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Learners
Kathy Perez has decades of experience as a classroom educator, with training in special education and teaching English language learners. She also has a dynamic style. Sitting through her workshop presentation was like being a student in her classroom.
Proper Use of Technology for Preschool Teachers
Proper Use of Technology for Preschool Teachers
March 7, 2016 | By Ron Spreeuwenberg A popular topic in early childhood education today is the use of technology in child care centers. The rise of technology in the classrooms has parents and teachers asking questions such as, “How much is too much?”