Social Bookmarking in Education
Many educators just use the favorites menu on their computer either at work or home. But what about when we’re at home and need to get to a site we saved at school? This is where social bookmarking comes in! Bookmarking favorite links on the internet is something that […]
Understanding Standards
Once upon a time a king went for a walk through the forests in his lands. He noticed everywhere he looked there were bullseyes on the trees and in every bullseye was a perfectly shot and centered arrow. The king thought to himself, “I must meet […]
The Impact of Bullying
Though a school may have thousands of incidents of hitting and pushing during the school year, it is rare for students to send one another to the hospital because they know they will get in serious trouble and they will feel terrible.
Approximately 8% of students are victims of relentless […]
Paradigm Shift in Education
“Research is the bricks. Our informed, educated intuition is the mortar. It’s impossible to construct a worthy structure without either one.” – Dr. Michael Allen, ezine January 26, 2006
The most significant issue relating to learning is the relatively recent paradigm shift in education. This change is illustrated in the way in […]
Textbook vs eBook
The textbook is dead.
Long live the textbook.
Okay, maybe that’s a little bit of an exaggeration. Maybe I should have said the traditional, printed, industrial strength bound, heavy textbook is dead.
It seems like almost every day someone introduces a new way to deliver text electronically. Web sites are offering free full versions of public […]
About ADHD
ADHD is a neurobiologial disability in children and adolescents that is highly heritable. More common in boys than girls, ADHD occurs in one of every 20 children.
Children with ADHD do not lack intelligence or discipline — they simply cannot sustain the focus needed to complete tasks appropriate for their age […]
Classroom Behavior Basics: Environment
A student’s classroom behavior is a product of the interaction between that student’s personal qualities, including his or her learning history, and the many factors in that student’s current instructional environment.
For example, a student may behave very differently depending on the peers with whom he or she is […]
Teaching Tip: Understanding Chat Rooms
Kids, and adults, of all ages are chatting online. If you are involved in teaching children or integrating technology in the classroom, it makes good sense to understand chat rooms. A chat “room” is a virtual space or place that people go to on the Internet to talk with others.
Chat room services are […]
Qualities of Gifted Students
“Gifted” learners might possess unique traits that can’t always be easily observed. Some are verbally strong, others are shy. Some learners have a strong sense of humor; others choose not to engage at all. Gifted children learn differently from other subgroups in the student population as well as from […]
What are Formative Assessments?
Each day students are given tests, not to determine what they’ve learned, but instead to determine the student’s grade. Overwhelmingly this is how the majority of educators perceive tests – as yet another method or tool to determine a student’s grade.
But in the 21st Century, tests have taken on […]
