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About the Things a Teacher Will Not Tell You
Back in September The Reader's Digest magazine interviewed educators in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Texas to get a first approach of what a teacher wouldn't tell you. The article has generated almost 2 hundred comm...
How to Walk Into a Classroom And See Children Learning
You are already familiar to some of the most popular education websites and blogs, but what I would like to recommend is The Educator's Royal Treatment. The select group of authors are educators with a large trajectory in the education field.If you p...
10 Places for Teachers to Collaborate and Communicate Online
Collaboration and communication is one of the most important aspects of teaching and education. If you are looking for tools and sites that can be used to communicate and collaborate with other teachers, parents, and students, you can find many quali...
The Selling of Lesson Plans Undermines the Collegiality of Teaching.
Not precisely what I think and feel of selling lesson plans but what Joseph McDonald, a professor at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University, thinks arise philosophical questions. The article is on the...
While Teachers Quit, Disrupters Remain Still and Happy
We found this post bookmarked in the old archives. It is a way of work for us to bookmark interesting information to look it over when we are not in a rush. If it wasn't for we had to reload our bookmarks, this post probably will never be commented.I...
Can We Really Enforce Differenciated Instruction in Our Schools?
I was attending the all popular now #edchat and organized every Tuesday at 7 PM EST. on Twitter. It has been a great opportunity to know more participants, but also to learn a bit more about Differentiated Instruction (DI). If you missed the online ...
Larger Schools Had Built an "Innovation Prevention Department."
The IndependentWith his tips on tagging Web site bookmarks, shortening URLs and installing browser applications, Tony Vincent may have sounded at times Wednesday like he was talking to a group of Web developers.But Vincent was talking to teachers, an...
A First Definition of Cyberbullying Applied to Teachers
I read lots of information on the fly, but the article written by Doug Johnson caught my eye for the appealing context with which he discusses the cyberbullying against teachers.Doug Johnson is the publisher of The Boo Skunk Blog. He posted a very c...
Edmodo Hits Badly an Australian Classroom
I don't pretend to criticize neither the teacher nor the application. What I try to, is to show experiences from which everyone else may benefit.Simon Job of Maths Class, lived first hand, what happens when we give a tool to students for whom it is m...
There Is Not Research on the Impact of Twitter on Education
If we still want to submit the social sciences to be probed by scientific science, then we will never accept Twitter as a good tool in the classroom. @kmanzo of Education Week posts an interesting article about Twitter in the classroom.Kathleen Kenne...
Will Kindle Solve All Our Reading Problems?
As days pass by, more and more people is getting used to small appliances and the same sort of technological devices. We are hunting for the right cell phone, the tiniest digital camera, the faster netbook and of course, the device that solve all our...
The State of the American Education \'Is on the Chopping Block\'
I, as many, enjoyed the article appeared on the New York Times, authored by well known Paul Krugman. The conversation about the shortfall of American education is endless around the education community, but when it comes from the voice of an economi...
Top 5 Web Resources for Students
There are various reasons why students use the Internet, and although I’m sure social networks take up a major chunk of their time, they do utilize the web for practical purposes too. While the Internet has made life a whole lot easier for the enti...
Popular Language Arts Literacy Message
We attended our first PT conference last night. We really enjoyed the enthusiasm from many of our Jr's teachers, especially the Science teacher and Language one. For our son, the Science teacher is 'cheesy' but for us, she was a very well motivated p...
A Student's Goals Many Teachers Should Read
Every often we teachers are dedicated to read, investigate and plan ahead our class management and the substance of our subjects, but the contact with our students is reduced to greet them at the beginning of the school period, randomly check their h...
The So Expected Change in the New School Year
I was inspired by this post written by a Philly Teacher, Mary Beth Hertz. School year just started and all Summer fun we had is vanishing to embrace a new collective of new faces, challenges and work. All that time we've spent on Twitter, learning an...
Top 10 N.J. High Schools - Newsweek
In New Jersey the back-to-school day is tomorrow and while I am helping my wife to set up everything around our 7th grader, I though it is a great opportunity to remember what are the choices parents have to enroll their sons in a High School, this y...
Getting Prepared to the Parent Teacher Conferences
Some states already started the new year but others are still waiting for the back to school day, next week. When you are an experienced teacher meetings may sound as routine, but for new teachers and those who had moved for any other reasons, the PT...
Schools' Overworked IT Staff, Are Seen Unfriendly to Teachers
Jim Moulton has some insights about the internal relationship among school, ITs, teachers and students. In a reflexive post, he quotes three posts where the experiences and data about interaction is evident. The first one is from eSchools News, other...
20 Useful Websites and Tools for Elementary School Teachers
Engaging students in an elementary classroom can be difficult. But there are a lot of sites online that can help. Here are 20 useful sites that offer lesson plans, web apps, and other aids for elementary school teachers:Lesson PlansScholastic - Schol...
Open Standards, the Solution to Mobile Security
Jeff Crawford is the manager of networking and security for East Grand Rapids Public Schools in Michingan. Mr. Crawford was to struggle helping students to go online using their very own devices. After rejecting many vendors and convinced he was cap...
Digital Characteristics of the New Literacy and Curriculum
Education Innovation“…in the digital world everything is only a few clicks away.”Or as Tom Peters would say, “Distance is dead.” Students can use the web to instantly reach out to any part of the planet to talk with people, or find informa...
Mobile Devices Are Machines for Learning ( Not Distractors)
"I want my children to be taught how to use their mobile devices to create and publish and connect, but I also want that done by adults who know how to do that for themselves." A Will Richardson comment featured in this post, thanks to the terrific ...
The Four Pillars of Technology Integration
nashworldWhat are the key elements required for a transformation of teaching and learning through the use of technology? There are obviously many reasonable ways to look at this. From what position do you view this issue? Are you a teacher, instru...
Boudreaux: "Merit Pay for Teachers Will Not Result in Better Teaching"
The prospect of higher pay will not prompt teachers to perform better in the classroom, was part of what Economics Prof. Donald J. Boudreaux, wrote to Kathy L. Smith, Chairman of Fairfax County Public Schools, in response to a an article in The Wash...
Facebook Apps for Aministrators and Educators
Whatever social media gurus say, Facebook continues to be the king in the social networks, closely followed only by Twitter. Sadly, majority of teachers in our schools barely use email, and less use Smartboards, says @motherthinker. Cellphones seem f...
8 Ways Schools in NY Are Using Wikis
Lisa Nielsen of The Innovative Educator brings to attention of her readers, an interesting post about how schools in New York are using wikis to "increase communication, collaboration, and enrich instruction." She lists and explains 8 possible ways...
How to Build a First-Class Educational System for the U.S. History
We always focus on the process of education, talk a lot about technology in and out the classroom but very few times an educator or journalist has the courage to voice his/her concerns about the color of skin or race of children attending American sc...
Duncan Has to Explain Why He Did Hype Inflated Test Scores
The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a supporter of Duncan, revealed its research (pdf doc) results which has key findings about contradictory Chicago schools reports issued by Obama and Duncan. The report's findings are "reminiscen...
Social Media in the Classroom
This post was contributed by Tara Miller, who writes about the online teaching degrees. She welcomes your feedback at TaraMillerr00 at yahoo dot com Many high school teachers have recently opted for keeping their homework assignments and grades onli...
