Improve Your Craft: The 20 Best Books About EdTech Today

Improve Your Craft: The 20 Best Books About EdTech Today

These days, it’s almost impossible to be an educator without implementing some kind of technology in the classroom. From blogging to educational games to online tracking tools, there are numerous tools that educators can take advantage of to cater to an increasingly tech-savvy group of learners. But not everyone knows just how to do that…

Why Teachers–Not Schools–Are The Real Institutions

Why Teachers–Not Schools–Are The Real Institutions

Why Teachers–Not Schools–Are The Real Institutions by TeachThought Staff “I am a teacher, therefore I teach,” is a phrase that seems to describe your job pretty well. After all, teaching is what you are getting paid for. But times are changing and such narrow perspective could become dangerous. At the very least, you are probably…

100 Scientists On Twitter By Category

While scientists may have a reputation for being anti-social, when it comes to using social media you’ll find the best and brightest in diverse scientific fields taking full advantage of the chance to connect with laymen and other scientists alike. Twitter is full of opportunities to hear what these scientists have to say, follow their…

18 Innovative Uses Of QR Codes

Quick Response codes, popularly known as QR codes, are popping up everywhere from the center of Iron Man’s suit to bottles of wine. Basically a barcode, when scanned, QR codes link to something on the web, from ads to videos and music to surveys. Despite the fact that many young people currently say they’re not likely to scan…

Writer-Fight: The 10 Best Put-Downs in Literary History

A List Of The Best Literary Put-Downs There is a kind of unwritten rule among writers that you don’t criticize colleagues’ work too harshly, because they understand just how hard it is to produce great pieces. And yet, over the years handfuls of famous writers have taken huge exceptions to this rule, often with harsh…

4 Benefits To Cloud-Based Learning

As learning becomes increasingly digital, access becomes increasingly important. The Flipped Classroom, for example, requires technology that only a few years ago would’ve been considered dramatic. Broadband access, CPU speed and graphics processing, multi-media production in terms of sound, image, and film, and other innovations have placed significant demands on the technology industry. Of course,…

A Quick Primer On Charter Schools

A Quick Primer On Charter Schools

A one-size-fits-all approach has never worked in education, and the variety of school options available today attests to that fact. While a number of private schools specialize in specific content or teaching approaches, the costs can be prohibitive to most parents. Charter schools have been rapidly multiplying throughout the country, offering students and families private-school-quality…

Your Quick-Guide To Using QR Codes In Education

Your Quick-Guide To Using QR Codes In Education

These funny looking checkerboards are cropping up everywhere – at zoos and in museums, in books, on airline tickets and driver’s licenses, on product packaging and store displays, online, and even in classrooms. They are rapidly replacing the standard old zebra stripe barcodes familiar since the 1970s and their popularity is due in part to…

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