What Is The Purpose Of School?
How much of your intelligence, your affection, your skill, and your pride is employed in your work? What are its ecological and social costs?
The Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
25 Things Successful Teachers Do Differently
What do successful teachers do? It turns out, quite a bit–and it begins and ends with connecting with students.
Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Video is a pedagogical goldmine. What ‘viewing comprehension strategies’ can students use during and after watching videos in class?
50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.
Why Students Should Read
Why should students read? When we read–really, really read–for a while, a normally very loud part of us grows quiet.
12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, artifacts, credible sources, and thinking on relevant topics.
Helping Students Fail: A Framework
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO–failing gives the data needed to proceed.
4 Principles Of Student-Centered Learning
Student-centered learning puts the needs of the students over the conveniences of planning, policy, and procedure.
Why Assessments Don’t Really Measure Understanding
If you can show all assessment results, learners may realize that understanding is evasive, evolving, and as dynamic as their imaginations.
A Project-Based Learning Cheat Sheet For Authentic Learning
The function of this image is to help get your own creative juices going to decide what’s most important when designing authentic PBL units.
What Works In Education And How Do We Know?
What works in education and how do we know? What do we know an idea is ‘good’? Letter grades? Test performance? Graduation Rates?
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