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…
How can you use data to improve your teaching? If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind.
Poor responses to data or simply not having enough time to plan are two possible reasons your students are struggling.
While schools should center children in purpose, tone, structure, function, etc., what about teachers? What do they need?
What/who is the most compelling, ongoing catalyst for helping students learn in your classroom? If it’s the teacher, you’re in trouble.
With considerable trepidation, I commonly write about the future of education–the future of the classroom, the future role of the teacher, the role of robots (and whether or not robots can replace teachers), and AI and new models accommodate these technologies, such as Combination Learning, Self-Directed learning, and the Sync Learning Model, among others. What…
Do students like going to school here? Do teachers like teaching here? Here are 30 questions teachers can ask at their next job interview.
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
Most learning profiles are quick glances of academic data. There’s nothing wrong with this. They are useful, but they are also limited.
Brainstorming for problem-based learning: Which ‘parts’ of the world would most benefit from my creativity, affection, and sustained effort?
For amateurs developing skills, the process is far more important than the product. This is true in science and is true for writing, too.
Pre-writing can include clarifying audience and purpose to researching and outlining, making it crucial to the quality of the writing.
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