“Finishing The School Year Strong” At Edutopia Edutopia just reprinted the excerpt from my book titled “Finishing The School Year Strong.” If you didn’t see it last week when it was published at Education Week Teacher, you might want to take a look…
Make A Cool “SparkTweet” Infographic The Outreach Editor at the Wall Street Journal has developed a cool tool call “SparkTweets.” They are simple infographics like this one (the tweet itself didn’t come out the way I had hoped, even though I used the Blackbird Pie tool to copy it — oh ...
More On The Dangers Of Being “Data-Driven” Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources Showing Why We Need To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven”: Data-Driven Instruction and the Practice of Teaching is by Larry Cuban. The Obituaries for Data-Driven ‘Reform’ Are Being Written is by ...
Yale Makes 260,000 Images Available Online — With No Limitations On Their Usage This news seems pretty neat and, instead of re-inventing the wheel, I’m just going to quote from a Read Write Web post (and I’d encourage you to read their entire piece: *Yale University has one of the larger collections of art, objects and ...
Surprise, Surprise! Study Says Cooperative Learning Is More Effective Than Lectures A study was just announced today claiming — surprise, surprise — that integrating pair work and small groups in teaching is more effective than straight lectures. Science Daily reported it in an article titled Interactive Teaching Methods Double ...
Water Resources World Water Day was back in March, but I’ve recently a couple of new related resources, and I’m now adding them to The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About World Water Day: Here’s a video titled “Water Changes Everything”: The Water Planet ...
