The Most Popular Standardized Tests Being Used In Education Today Once, the ACT and SAT were big factors in determining whether or not you’d get into the school of your choice, but today schools are moving away from these tests, in large part because research has shown that they aren’t reliable indicators of how successful students will…
What Is Glogster? Glogster is like a digital bulletin board where students can mash together multimedia content, from text and photographs, to videos, screenshots, and other digital fare. Think blogging with less text and easier-to-embed multimedia. Think pinterest, but single boards an dynamic multimedia. Think learnist, but less about learning specific topics and more about…
While schools in the United States continue to experiment with how to best use technology in the classroom, the same challenges faces educators in other countries as well. A new survey by Dell compares and contrasts how these two world superpowers are currently approaching the concept of technology integration, and some of the data is…
There is a saying that “Teaching creates all other professions.” It rings with truth so loud that one should hear it from miles away. So my thoughts this morning turn to teacher preparation. Since it is true that teaching creates all other professions, why do I get the impression that teacher preparation is not as…
Pedagogy and innovation in education gets lost in a standardized curricula, where the artistry is replaced by this dead language of delivery.
There are dozens of benefits that justify earning a higher education, including–but by no means limited to–better employment prospects, access to jobs with higher pay and the broadening of a college student’s social and mental horizons. Even so, approximately one in two high school graduates choose to forgo these potential benefits because they cannot reconcile…
Professional learning networks can improve teaching. They can also act as communal intelligence that changes societal perceptions.
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address was personal, moving, and wise in a way that most commencement addresses only seek to be.
The Similarities Between The Montessori And Digital Learning by Carri Schneider first appeared on gettingsmart.com “Before elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child’s natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and…
Minding The Test Without The Panic Editor’s Preface: As TeachThought grows, we are trying to include a consistently more diverse set of voices, authority, and expertise. This is what brought us to partner with Grant Wiggins to begin offering his personal thoughts on education–thoughts he shares on his personal blog. The following article is interesting,…
Here are a few of the schools that are leading the way for Pinterest to become another great social media tool for higher education.
This information is published from an Adobe Press Release: Creative thinking deserves a much higher priority in education curricula, according to college-educated professionals surveyed in new research released today by Adobe. The U.S. study, Creativity and Education: Why it Matters, sheds new light on the role of creativity in career success and the growing belief…
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