Why do we STILL have reports?wordpress.com - whatedsaid Why is it that, in this day and age of instant communication, most schools and parents still expect the kind of report card suited to another era?Why …
Preparing Learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolutionesheninger.blogspot.com Do you like change? If you do, then living in the present is an exhilarating experience. For those who don’t, buckle up as we are only going to see …
What is Your Watch? #TeacherMythafhogan.com - Aaron Hogan I started last school year with a watch that had a dead battery. I told myself I’d get it fixed. It wouldn’t take much time. It wouldn’t cost a lot of …
A Checklist for Bloggers | Kindling for the Campfirecoetail.com - Tricia Friedman Make sure you have an engaging title for your post. Also make sure your title isn’t too long. Most research suggests you go with a title in between …
Hands-Off Teaching Cultivates Metacognitionedutopia.org - Hunter Maats and Katie O'Brien In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed everything we know about learning in a paper called How Students Learn. In this report, 600 pages …
What We Ask of Our Students and What We Dogeorgecouros.ca - George Please watch this video created by Rick Burkett and his students:@gcouros Here is my video response to your evening session @LIU12_PD @rlmaderj …
How I Turned Formative Assessment into a Dialogue with My Studentscommonsense.org - James Denby When formative feedback felt like a dead end, this teacher dug in and learned how to empower his students. A few years ago, formative assessment …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo A Taxonomy of Reflection: Critical Thinking For Students, Teachers, and Principals (Part 1)peterpappas.com - Peter Pappas My approach to staff development (and teaching) borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teaching should be thought of as …
10 Commandments of Innovative Teachinggeorgecouros.ca - George AJ Juliani, is an educator I have worked closely with over the past few years, and I greatly admire his work. Soon (April 2), he will be launching …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Student ePortfolios in the High School Science Classroom: Q & Alajuntaschools.org - Chris Ludwig Q: What’s an ePortfolio? A: Let me start by saying that, like most of what I use in my teaching, I didn’t invent ePortfolios and I can’t answer for …
The 3 Stages of Documentation OF/FOR/AS Learning – A Guide to Documenting Learningdocumenting4learning.com Documentation OF/FOR/AS Learning has many objectives, goals, levels, and components. My work is concentrating on making pedagogical documentation …
Are We Innovating, or Just Digitizing Traditional Teaching?edutopia.org - Beth Holland The dissemination of digitized, teacher-driven content is not full blended learning. Though this can be viewed as a first step toward new models of …
Students 11 Essentials for Excellent Digital Portfoliosedutopia.org - Vicki Davis According to Dr. Helen Barrett (PDF), portfolios fall into two categories: the positivist approach (using portfolios for learning), and the …
Ten Reflective Questions to Ask at the End of Classbrilliant-insane.com - Angela Stockman | March 3, 2015 | Assessment, Featured, Feedback | 4 Comments Do you maintain a reflective journal? Do you blog? Do you capture and archive your reflections in a different space? Do you consistently reserve a bit …
Dividends on an Investment. | Kindling for the Campfirecoetail.com - Tricia Friedman “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol When I first started …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Wikispaceswikispaces.com Wikispaces was founded in 2005 and has since been used by educators, companies and individuals across the globe. Unfortunately, the time has come …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo High Tech Reflection Strategies Make Learning Stickedutopia.org - Suzie Boss Indeed, as Mayo anticipated, blogs have consistently inspired the emerging writers in his classroom to reflect on their progress. In a recent post, …
Students Concept mapping – helping students to track their learning.wordpress.com - Gareth Jacobson Our Grade 3 teachers, Mr Karl and Ms Stacy have just finished a UOI on Migration, they shared a sample of before and after concept maps and …
Learning 10 ways to make learning meaningful…wordpress.com - whatedsaid Whether your students are completing assignments, inquiring into areas of their interest, covering curriculum or exploring their passions, to what …
When Does Real Learning Happen?qaspire.com - Tanmay Vora Learning, the real learning, happens…• When you are intentional about learning • When you are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by …
The Vulnerability of Learninggeorgecouros.ca - George If you want a culture of creativity and innovation, where sensible risks are embraced on both a market and individual level, start by developing the …
How 'Deprogramming' Kids From How to 'Do School' Could Improve Learningkqed.org - Katrina Schwartz One day, Adam Holman decided he was fed up with trying to cram knowledge into the brains of the high school students he taught. They weren’t grasping …
What Makes a Master Teachergeorgecouros.ca The term “master teacher” seems to get thrown around a lot, but is something that many educators aspire to be. In my ten years in the field of …
Sharing…a teachers imperative – Future Wisecoetail.com - Posted byJoel Bevans We are able to share thoughts and ideas about anything and everything with the click of a button. It is so easy to share these days and we all do it. …
Why Design Thinking In Schools Loses Power When It's Reduced To A Checklistkqed.org - MindShift Design thinking has been slowly gathering momentum among educators for the past few years as a way for students to engage with real-world problems …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Why Balancing Priorities Is Essential to One-to-One Computingedtechmagazine.com a href=/k12/article/2016/03/why-balancing-priorities-essential-one-one-computingimg …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLearning Should we focus on teaching or learning?wordpress.com - whatedsaid “Inquiry happens when you focus on the art of teaching.” Kath Murdoch.This is an interesting moment in Kath’s conversation with teachers. I lose …
'The reality is that technology is doing more harm than good in our schools' says education chiefsmh.com.au - Eryk Bagshaw Australia has spent $2.4 billion putting laptops in the bags of as many schoolchildren as possible through the Digital Education Revolution of the …
