Newseum Digital Classroom Many teachers are familiar with the Newseum’s collection of daily newspaper frontpages from thoughout the world. Some of their resources are on The Best Tools To Help Develop Global Media Literacy list. They’ve just launched a new project — the ...
“Connect All Schools” Connect All Schools is a new organization with a zillion education “partners” and describe their purpose this way: *to connect EVERY school in the United States with the world by 2016. Through the Connect All Schools interactive website, schools ...
Today’s Update On Japan Disaster Here are the newest additions to Part Two of my “The Best…” list on the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (you can see Part One here): The Lede blog from The New York Times is providing good continuing coverage. The Lede has developed a good Twitter list ...
The Best Posts Debunking The Myth Of “Five Great Teachers In A Row” A study by Eric Hanushek claiming that having five “great teachers” in a row can overcome the student achievement gap is used by many school “reformers” to push for unhelpful changes like the elimination of teacher tenure, using value-added ...
NY Times Learning Network Exempt From New Paywall (And Some Interesting Tidbits About The Paywall In General) Many teachers, like me, are big fans of the New York Times Learning Network. They always have great resources. The site is on The Best Places To Find Free (And Good) Lesson Plans On The Internet list. Happily, the Learning Network will be exempt from ...
The Best Websites For Learning About Bob Marley One of the units we teach in our mainstream ninth-grade classes is on Jamaica, and, obviously, Bob Marley is a big part of it. Student are now writing a biographical essay about him, and I thought it would be timely for me to pull together a list of ...
For Email Subscribers To This Blog Because of technical glitches that have now been fixed, email subscribers did not receive yesterday’s posts from this blog. You might want to visit the site itself to see the posts you missed….
