Archive: 2016
The Importance of Balancing Classroom Technology Use
By: Kate Durocher. Classroom technology has made the lives of teachers and students more efficient, but it's important to remember the need to use tech effectively while still fostering skills essential to life such as reading and writing.
How to Create a Breakout Room Activity in Your Classroom
I have never seen students more excited about solving addition and subtraction problems than they were with this breakout room activity I created. Here are directions for you to implement this great project in your classroom.
4 Myths About Learning Styles Debunked
By: Lisa Low. While the study of learning styles and multiple intelligences has diversified instructional styles in a great way, it has also brought with it a number of myths and misconceptions. This article debunks four of the most pervasive of these myths.
4 Key Elements of 21st Century Classroom Design
By: McKenna Wierman. Despite huge changes in lifestyle and technology, today's classroom designed compared to the early 20th-century classroom are not significantly different. Here are four key elements to help bring classrooms into this century.
What Students (and Schools) Can Do if We Stop Ranking Them
By: Rhonda Broussard. Are we preparing every student for the world they are entering, or are we investing in a factory model of education designed as an assembly line? The old model of education is under question, and we have some hard decisions to make.
Tel Aviv University: Addressing Social Challenges with Online Learning
Yuval Shraibman, CEO of Israel's TAU Online, shares more about how he and other education leaders in the country are working to find ways to bridge inequity and help all students succeed.
Integrating Classroom Practice and Experimentation into Professional Learning
By: Julie Keane. When classroom practice is part of the professional development learning cycle, teachers are provided more time and space to try out new ideas, ensuring the implementation of new strategies and content reaches the most important audience—the students.
Innov8: It’s a Cyberworld
In honor of a record Cyber Monday (which has now turned into Cyber Week), we bring you eight stories about how strong the influence of technology is today.
Learning Leadership Skills Outdoors: Place-Based Ed in the Puget Sound
By: Roberta McFarland. Students in the Waskowitz Environmental Leadership & Service program participate in place-based learning experiences that help them develop leadership skills as well as choose their next steps for college and career.
Next Generation School Design
A diverse group of education leaders recently gathered at the Digital Education Show in Dubai for a Getting Smart workshop to discuss best practices around new school design. Here are the results of their work.