Education is a complex process of getting teachers and students involved in a journey of self-discovery and personal growth to benefit everyone involved. To get the best of this experience, teachers h...
Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. Teachers take advantage of smartboards ...
The interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown so much in the past few months, with news alerts and updates about how Artificial Intelligence is being used in almost every area of life. Last y...
The concept of personalized instruction goes hand in hand with personalized learning as two sides of today's educational process. Thus, personalization can be viewed from two perspectives: one of the ...
Today’s digital technologies have changed the way we work, communicate, and get our entertainment. But they’ve done more than that. They’ve also changed the way we learn — and the way we teach. Educat...
Design Thinking: The phrase has become ubiquitous at education conferences and during professional development. With the rebellion against standardized tests and “one-size-fits-all” schools, design th...
As parents and educators, we have a daunting task ahead of us: to equip children with the skills and knowledge they need to learn, develop, thrive and stay safe in this digital age. So how do we prepa...
STEM education is an interdisciplinary and practical teaching method of four specific disciplines: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This approach allows students to apply principles ...
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously declared music to be the “universal language of mankind,” and science even backs up his claim. “Music appears in every society observed,” according to The Harv...
In March, we celebrate National Reading Month! Needless to say, it’s one of my favorite months of the year. I grew up surrounded by and loving books. I can’t remember a time in my life in which I didn...
Augmented Reality (AR) is more and more present in a variety of domains. Education is one of them. And this is not surprising since the current generation of students have lived all their lives surrou...
One of the primary goals of educators is typically to help students reach their greatest potential. However, before this can be done it’s often necessary to find out what motivates and brings them ali...
Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching focused on students and their uniqueness. Learners come from different cultural backgrounds, they have different cognitive strengths, they evolve ...
A version of this post was originally published on November 25, 2019, in Education Technology. A sense of security is something usually unseen yet it’s paramount to a great learning experience. Educat...
This post has been updated on July 2, 2020. A good teacher can change a person’s life. Every teacher wants to be able to influence their students to become productive members of society. Achieving thi...
Dear fellow teachers, We have reached the end of another year and you probably had a busy time, especially these past weeks. From spending countless hours grading papers to endless staff meetings, fro...
