8 ways schools can become truly Future Ready
Ed-tech leaders say being Future Ready is more than signing a pledge. Here's their top advice for going beyond the adopting technology and starting to make real, measurable…
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8 ways to improve your digital teaching
Good teaching is what makes digital age environments meaningful to students. There are countless recipes for digital teaching out there, but here are just a few tips to…
6 Minecraft lesson ideas for your Common Core math class
Last year I taught third-grade math in a whole new way. Combining elements from the wildly popular sandbox game Minecraft, I had students thinking visually and creatively about…
Six tips for classroom technology success
The LEGO Education Advisory Panel (LEAP) advises LEGO Education, the education division within the LEGO group, on how to meet the needs of educators and students. The panel…
8 simple tools for creating engaging infographics
Human beings are visual and adept at identifying patterns and trends quickly. Infographics can aid our understanding of otherwise dense, multifaceted, or complicated material.
10 teaching with technology mistakes you don’t want to make
Are you tentative about how to go about integrating technology in your classroom? Are you already doing it, but want to make sure you’re doing the right thing…
7 things we should start teaching in schools ASAP
Americans typically learn a lot of things in school--spelling, math, why plants are green--that are actually useful in our day-to-day lives, the Huffington Post reports.
The best measure of success and how to teach it
Can you predict academic success or whether a child will graduate? You can, but not how you might think, reports Edutopia.
Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.
One of the biggest misconceptions about teaching is that it is a single job, writes Ryan Fuller for Slate.
25 teaching tools for the digital classroom
Over the years, many of us have personally experienced the growth of technology in today’s classrooms, TeachThought reports.
Nation desperate for youth interest in teaching
Let’s face it: Being a teacher doesn’t sound all that glamorous to many of today’s students. However, with many teachers facing retirement in the next few years, as…
Report uncovers who is actually teaching with technology
Not too long ago, the Washington-based Pew Research Center published a report on how teachers are using technology at home and in their classrooms, Edudemic reports.
WWU researchers to study math, science teaching methods in area schools
Starting this fall, researchers from Western Washington University will study local elementary school math and science teaching methods in an attempt to figure out if specialists - those…
How a radical new teaching method could unleash a generation of geniuses
José Urbina López Primary School sits next to a dump just across the US border in Mexico, Wired.com reports.
Let tech organize your teaching
By now, many new and veteran teachers are settling into the routine of the new school year, Edutopia reports.
Social media can help educators improve learning
Teachers hear it all the time: Using social media will help increase professional development opportunities, it will engage students, and it can help students make real-world connections between…