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Teaching and Learning Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2020 Top 10 IT Issues
EDUCAUSE community members offer teaching and learning perspectives on the 2020 Top 10 IT Issues.
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Why A School’s Master Schedule Is A Powerful Enabler of Change
A school's schedule often determines what kind of teaching and learning happens in the building. The schedule reflects the school's priorities.
How Teaching With Symmetry Improves Math Understanding
Education researchers at Stanford have discovered that symmetry is key to how kids understand positive and negative integers.
Why Schools Need More 'Hybrid' Teaching Roles
Too many good teachers are forced to leave the classroom just because they want new challenges and a sense of advancement, English teacher Paul Barnwell says.
Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation
Guest blogger Dr. Allen Mendler presents eight strategies for helping your students reclaim and master the lost art of conversation.
How to Reinvent Project Based Learning to Be More Meaningful
Project-based learning continues to be misinterpreted as a single teaching strategy rather than as a set of design principles that allow us to introduce the philosophy of inquiry into education in an intelligent and grounded way. It’s time to not only address the flaws in PBL, but to reinvent it in a way that leads to deeper learning, creative inquiry, and a better fit with a collaborative world in which doing and knowing are one thing.
What Are the Effects of Teaching Black Students About Social Justice?
A new study shows such courses prompted self-exploration and openness in marginalized kids.
How YOU Can Be an Advocate for Early Learning
Rhian Allvin, Executive Director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, explains how YOU can raise your voice to support the early ...
30 Tips for Learning Faster
Learning is a skill, which means that there are steps you can take in order to learn how to learn. These 30 tips will allow you to learn any skill fast.
Why Teaching Mindfulness Benefits Students’ Learning
Mindfulness has the potential to be a very useful component because of its effectiveness in reducing emotional distress and promoting emotional balance, improving attention, and contributing to motivated learning. This book excerpt digs in.
Teaching STEM? Tips for Summer Planning
How do you get ready to teach STEM? Expert Anne Jolly reviews key points to consider if you are spending time this summer planning for STEM classes in the fall.
For Adults, Lifelong Learning Happens The Old Fashioned Way
Even after high school or college, Americans keep on learning. While online tools make this easier than ever, a new study finds the vast majority of adults prefer taking classes in physical places.
A virtual tour of blended-learning schools, so others can see how it’s done
When teachers want to try something new in the classroom, it helps if they can see what it looks like in action. They could ask another teacher down the hall. Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. But too often, these aspiring innovators …
How Teachers Are Turning to Social Media to Extend Learning
Teachers are expanding the school day and enhancing learning through social media.
7 Reflection Tips for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness
Through being reflective about your own teaching practices, model and guide students toward a more reflective approach to their projects, grades, actions, and reactions.
Why Good Teachers Quit Teaching
Stay on Top of Teaching Trends with These 36 Hashtags
Looking for new ways to encourage your students and innovate in your classroom? Follow these teaching trends on Twitter and other social media for ideas.
We Know What Works in Teaching Composition
Just because it doesn’t work in your classroom doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
3 rules to spark learning
It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teaching" to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.
