Photo credit: Francisco Osorio If there’s been a single educational buzzword with traction over the past few years, “student-centered learning” certainly tops the charts. From...
Brain-based learning isn’t a new concept, but it’s enjoying renewed attention thanks to the teacher accountability movement begun by President George W. Bush and continued...
Educators typically aren’t strangers to sonic chaos. Spend 30 seconds in my classroom of 27 ten-year-olds on a Friday before the bell rings, and you’ll...
Thirteen-year-old Trisha Prabhu of Naperville, Illinois recently made waves with her Rethink cyberbullying prevention app at the 2014 Google Science Fair. Her app recognizes hurtful...
For educators, there are few things more frustrating than looking out into a classroom during the middle of a lecture and seeing nothing but bent...
Consider the many ways in which people, especially students, acquire and retain information. We have written in the past about the seven styles of learning....
Many top educators and administrators view the idea of a paperless classroom as an inevitability in education. In today’s digital age, these educators believe that...
According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, more than half of teens and adolescents have reported that they’ve been bullied online, and between 10 and 20...
Blended learning. Digital literacy. Mobile learning. Game-based learning. When these top educational trends came onto the scene, they sparked a learning revolution. That revolution continued...
A fight or flight reaction may be useful in some situations, but it is highly detrimental in the classroom. Whether anxiety stems from test taking...
Google Drive empowers teachers as they use Google Docs to provide real time feedback. It also helps students engage in discourse via Google Moderator, and...
Imagine trying to read a sentence when every other word looks like made-up gibberish. It’s exhausting to read the sentence over and over again, trying...
There is a staggering amount of free video available online that makes great fodder for teaching students, particularly in flipped classroom settings. Instead of giving...
When app-smashing on iPad, students and teachers use multiple apps to create individual pieces of content that are then merged or smashed together into one...
Google’s advance in the education field has brought to schools around the globe affordable devices and effortless access to educational content. Google’s latest solution for...
If you are familiar with Google Tools, then you have probably heard of Google Hangouts or even used them yourself. Hangouts is Google’s video conferencing...
With the recent announcement that Google Classroom will be available to all Google Apps for Education schools by the week of August 11th, schools that...
One of my favorite features of Google Drive is Google Forms. If you’re unfamiliar with this, think of it as a way to create quick...
A lot of kids are using social media these days, and even if that isn’t surprising to you, it may be surprising to you just...
Technology has had a huge impact on the education system worldwide, transforming how students learn, share and gather information. The adoption of technologies like mobile...
With the recent announcement of Google Classroom, school districts and educators across the country that are currently integrating Google Apps for Education into their classrooms...
Google Docs is a powerful word processing tool that many schools have adopted. As it’s similar to Microsoft Word and other word processing tools, most...
There are about a million different ways to use all the great Google tools available for free in your classroom. Whether you’re bringing your classroom...
A few days back, we looked at five great ways to incorporate word cloud generators into your classroom. There are obviously many more uses out...
When I first started teaching English with 1:1 iPads, I was really jealous of the science and fine arts teachers. They had all of the...