A confession: This is one of my favorite topics. I think that hands-on experimentation, design, invention and creating is one of the most stimulating things you can engage students in, and I lap up an...
Creating online teaching modules takes an enormous amount of time. Many teachers are tempted by the swift right-click-save-as action, or popular CTRL-C / CTRL-V shortcut to, well, take short cuts. Tea...
Grasping the distinction between blended learning and ed-tech integration is critical for teachers in the process of enhancing their lessons and classrooms with tech. Simply put, blended learning alwa...
The flipped classroom is one of our favorite topics on this blog, because it is a simple concept with big results. “Flipped”, here does not mean crazy or way-out (although some would argue it is), it ...
A natural response to the call by policy-makers to increase the use of technology in schools is cost. Many schools are struggling to provide quality education with the resources available; by example,...
This post has been updated on June 29, 2020. It seems somehow antiquated to speak of technology as if it is a distinct category of life experiences. Of course, from an industrial or commercial point o...
Online learning is a terrific way to create stimulating learning environments for students. The variety of resources that can be included and the self-directed mode of learning encourages curiosity an...
Online learning is a highly engaging format. Most students are immediately stimulated by an asynchronous format that places them at the centre of their learning journey. The range of multimedia resour...
The ability to recognize, identify and manage our own emotions and the emotions of others is called Emotional Intelligence (EQ). As a psychological concept EQ gained traction in the 1990s with a numbe...
It is easy to forget, amid the near mania associated with college admissions and acceptance, that many students do not have the aptitude or indeed funding to attend college, and will need to work dire...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. In this final post of the mini series we'll explore the technologies available to help turn your face-to-face (F2F) class into an online course. The firs...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. In the previous post on this topic we looked at a few preparatory steps that you should take in order to prepare your objectives and plan for how the onl...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. So you’ve decided to make the leap and convert your face-to-face (F2F) class into an online course. A daunting job, even for the most tech-literate and m...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a broad range of disorders that include autism and Asperger’s syndrome. Children with ASD typically struggle with verbal and nonverbal communication, social interacti...
“Self-directed learning” is a major catch-phrase of 21st Century educationalists, and undeniably a critical skill in the labor markets of the future. The modern world of work demands that people have ...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. Online education remains a key response to the documented shortcomings of K-12 education. There can be no doubt that the sheer volume of solutions and op...
