Learning with Podcasts
Podcasts are increasingly popular: one-third of Americans say they’ve listened to one in the past month. This emerging technology could play a key role in the K–12 classroom.
Learning Styles
Sit. Stay. Read: How Dogs Can Help Improve Literacy
One of the best literacy teachers Jane Swire knows is her dog, Blizzard. She and Blizzard visit the local library once a week during the school year as part of a reading program.
Helping Kids With Dyslexia
Technology can be a classroom boon for those who are dyslexic. Computer-based experiences can promote social emotional learning, while apps can help to promote reading skills.
Complex Learning Environments: The ESL Challenge
For K–12 teachers of English as a Second Language, the shifting nature of the ESL population is creating a new set of classroom challenges.
Escape Rooms: Catering to Different Learning Styles
Escape rooms are multidisciplinary and purposefully designed with variety in mind. They require diverse thinking and allow multiple learning styles to thrive simultaneously.
Preventing the Summer Slide
Perhaps some learning loss is to be expected during summer vacation, but there are reasonable concerns about how the break may weaken students’ reading and math skills.
Better Serving Introverts in the Classroom
As curriculums move away from an emphasis on content to skills, the time is right to use that move as an opportunity to better serve introverts in school.
Don’t Make Your Classroom Flip a Flop
Teachers are constantly look for ways to make best use of their limited class time. That’s one reason why many have taken to “flipping” their classrooms in recent years.
Jazzing Up History Class
Educators teaching history may find guidance in the genius of Miles Davis’ advice to musicians, “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills
Can unicycles serve an important educational purpose? Are there good pedagogical reasons for learning to ride them?