Archives for March, 2015
How Teachers Use YouTube Videos To Teach
The internet is an excellent source of material for teachers. If you are a teacher, you may already use it extensively for planning your own lessons. One of the best…
Novel E-Books – Your Favorite Novels Just a Click Away
Many of us love reading. And reading does not necessarily refer to academic reading. Many of us just read for fun and entertainment. Traditionally we know that books are the…
New Technologies For Art Classes
Today’s students are growing surrounded by all kinds of technology. They are interested in these gadgets, which is why they’ve grown quite skillful in using them. It’s also why it’s…
Training In Solar Power
There are many reasons you need to consider solar. Scientists studying the climate still do not understand what served as the last straw to cause such an abrupt earth climate…
Road To Innovation In Social Education
One of the positive things I started my career as a university professor, is that I have taken up the healthy habit of reading texts and scientific articles related to…
Math In The Real World
NEW YORK, NY (February 19, 2015) Based on many of the same skills and concepts, math is a natural complement to economics and personal finance; and yet, they are rarely…
Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones
The concept of disruption is an apt one in our fluid, digital, and almost destructively social world. In response to the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, it’s not…
The Inconvenient Truths About Assessment
1. In terms of pedagogy, the primary purpose of an assessment is to provide data to revise planned instruction. It should provide an obvious answer to the question, “What next?”…
4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum
Educators often wonder how they are going to meet all the demands of Common Core. One important point is that the standards require more depth and less breadth. Meeting these…
Teaching Art, Or Teaching To Think Like An Artist?
These ideas are familiar to modern educators, as they represent a kind of polar opposite to the standardized and industrialized form learning has taken on–or is at least perceived…