Want to give your gamers at home some valuable learning experiences? In a recent Mindshift article, Tanner Higgin describes “Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain Sight” that can support middle schoolers […]
A teacher at my daughter’s new school just told me about a fantastic, relatively new Web site for students that has incredible learning opportunities, and that he will be incorporating […]
mistaks Mistakes are important 4 four for learning! This critical advice for educators and parents from one Stanford University educator comes at a time when the push for getting it all correct […]
iPad and tablet device initiatives are huge, but exciting educational undertakings. And for schools, it’s important to get everyone on board, trained, and ready. The following resources present the benefits […]
My 11-year old loves science. And I love to encourage her to learn, explore, and experiment. When she came home last week from school, this was the conversation: Child: “Mama, can […]
The use of technology is integrated throughout the Common Core standards. The introductory pages of the English Language Arts standards explains that college and career-ready students need to be able to […]
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“The video clip shows the cliff where the fall initiated, near the ledge close to the skyline. Then, below the ledge, you can see the…
This is a beautiful video created by Dr. Brené Brown, on the difference between empathy and sympathy. It’s a powerful lesson for our children — helping them to develop understanding […]
This great infographic is from Kodable, creators of an app that teaches k-2nd grade students to code.
I love this video. Image courtesy of Keerati / FreeDigitalPhotos.net”.
I just read the post “I am a Triangle and Other Thoughts on Repatriation” describing what it feels like to repatriate back to your home country. My husband, children, and […]
Back in 2001, educational writer, thinker, and consultant Marc Prensky coined a phrase describing children born at the time as “digital natives.” Prensky explained that those born with technology all around them […]
My children’s school system recently introduced iPads for the first time. Sounds exciting! Yes? So my hopes were that the iPads would be used to explore Web sites for research, […]
“Kids are getting into middle school and high school and having some ugly experiences on Facebook and other social networks without an understanding of how to interact with people online. […]
For inside the classroom and out, Doodlecast Pro is a fabulous productivity app for creating presentations on the iPad. This flexible tool allows students or teachers to record their voices […]
Warning: Creativity can be contagious. Do not show the following video to your children or students unless you have on hand many empty cardboard boxes and rolls of packing tape! […]
When my daughter was just a toddler, our pediatrician recommended that I read the book The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World. His reasoning for recommending the book […]
Comprehension in reading is the understanding that one acquires from text. It is the process in which meaning is constructed and is a main goal of reading instruction for elementary […]
“By removing the creative process and leaving only the results of that process, you virtually guarantee that no one will have any real engagement with the subject.” –from A Mathematician’s Lament […]
My son had the opportunity to take several video game programming courses last year through an after-school program. They were using Scratch, a free program develop at the MIT Media Lab […]
