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Guest Post: Teaching Friendship Skills through Video Modeling
By William T. Mulcahy, LPC, NCC, CEAP, author of the Zach Rules series When I asked a friend what tools teachers could give kids to help them build healthy friendships, she replied, “Have them watch...
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Education Technology: Apps in the Middle School Classroom
Second in a series. Click here to read “Apps in the Elementary Classroom” or “Highly Used Apps in High Schools”. Karin’s daughter read about John Smith on the Jamestown app. Karin has three kids, two...
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Educational Technology: Highly Used Apps in High Schools
Third in a series. Click to read Apps in the Elementary Classroom or Apps in the Middle School Classroom. Ask a group of high school teachers what they want from technology in the classroom, and you’re...
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Educational Technology: Will Your Next Teaching Job Be Online?
First in a series of posts looking at the rapidly evolving world of online education for school-age students. “Technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which...
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Educational Technology: Online High Schools
Second in a series of posts looking at the rapidly evolving world of online education for school-age students. Click here for Part 1. “The student of the future will truly be an explorer, a researcher,...
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Counselor’s Corner: 4 Ways Educators Can Soak Up Knowledge This Summer
If you have been watching or listening to any news media recently, you have heard lots of talk about “brain drain,” the loss of learning that occurs over the summer months when children are not in...
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Educational Technology: Elementary Schools Online
Third in a series. See our previous posts on virtual high schools and teaching online. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education....
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Educational Technology: Looking at the Latest Crop of Educational Apps
As our smartphones and tablets become more sophisticated, and laptops are being designed to work with the same touchscreen technology, a wealth of new apps line the “shelves” of app stores for every...
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Teen Tech Week, March 9–15, 2014
Recently we shared a post about all the resources and roles that libraries provide in our communities. This month, school and public libraries will be showcasing all the nonprint resources available...
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Ed Tech: The Future—Hold On to Your Hats
Part 1 of 2 If you think the explosion of technology in your school during the last decade has been amazing, just wait till you see what’s coming. When computers made their way into business and...
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Ed Tech: The Evolving Learner-Centered Classroom
Part 2 of 2. Click here for part 1. There is no time machine or magic crystal ball to show us the future, but hundreds of educators, tech developers, and tech trainers are working to make that future...
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Cash in on Learning: Inexpensive Field Trips to Engage and Enrich Gifted...
Now that the school year is well underway, you may be noticing that some of your brightest students are flying through the introductory information or reviews that are prominent in the early fall. In...
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Ed Tech: 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Tech Training
Scenario: There is a Tech Expo and Workshop Day in your state, and your school decides to send you. Which description best fits you? You spend the day deeply involved in workshops, hit every vendor...
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Ed Tech: Managing Training in Your Future
Teachers are learners, too. And differentiation applies to how teachers learn as well. If you purchased any new computerized device in the last few years—smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, or even a...
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6 Websites or Apps You Need to See Before School Starts
The arrival of August can shift our thoughts back to the classroom. But before you head back to your students this fall, take some time to check out these websites that can make your teaching...
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Teaching Leadership Skills Using Digital Platforms
By Mariam G. MacGregor, author of Building Everyday Leadership in All Teens Like most things, the best way to learn a skill is to apply it immediately. Truth is, we all feel more comfortable having...
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Friday Link Roundup
This week’s reading was dominated by the terrible story of a school resource officer who slammed a student to the ground at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina. The incident was caught on...
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Friday Link Roundup
This week, we continue to watch the world’s responses to the ongoing refugee crisis. PBS’s NewsHour has the story of a school in Texas where “Telling stories helps refugee children learn a new...
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Friday Link Roundup
“Relationships matter,” says Free Spirit author and executive director/CEO of ASCD Deb Delisle. Students, especially disadvantaged students, face great challenges these days. What adults can do is...
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How to Maximize Digital Learning on Snow Days
By Andrew Hawk My senior year in high school, the area of Ohio in which I lived received a large amount of ice and snow, resulting in my school being closed for nine consecutive school days. While...
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