Stop promoting learning styles, says leading scientists No one is an auditory learner, or hands-on learner. Supercharge Google Sheets with the Power Tools add-on A great way to automate certain tasks in Google Sheets. Curate, highlight and share websites with lumio Lumio is a pretty cool way to mark up and share websites.
In a panel at last week’s SXSWedu, moderated by The Teacher’s Guild Director Molly McMahon, a trio of two Texas K-12 administrators and a district teacher of the year from Georgia discussed the benefits of letting teachers drive innovation. Spring Branch Independent School District Associate Superintendent Elliott Witney, El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Juan Cabrera,…
Provide visual proofreading advice on pieces of writing in Google Docs and export Google Doc comments into an organized table. Source: Revision Assistant – Google Docs add-on Once installed, Revision Assistant supercharges the basic edits/suggestions that is in Google Docs. With Revision Assistant, a teacher can mark up the document, offering ways to improve the…
In July 2016, I’ve moved to the district office level and no longer work at a school as a principal. To make matters more complicated I work in a completely new district – most adults didn’t know who I was, and certainly none of the students knew me. I’ve always believed that relationships come first,…
Effortless creation of mind maps,concept maps and outlines to improve your thinking, learning and even your business solutions. Online, desktop, iPad and Android apps are available. Source: Mind mapping, concept mapping and outlining Mindomo is an online tool for mind mapping, concept mapping, outlining, and more. The free version allows you to store three maps…
However talented, no one is a natural-born teacher. Honing the craft takes significant care and effort, not just by the individual, but also by the school at large. Though experience does matter, it matters only to the extent that a teacher — regardless of how long he or she has been in the classroom —…
Failure is all the rage in education circles these days—but not in the ways you might assume. Today’s failure conversation is less about academic grades or the achievement gap and more about how children react to personal letdowns, lapses, and losses. While this emphasis on the emotional aspect of learning is well intentioned, it misses the…
With Presefy, your presentations can be played in sync, on the audience’s mobile devices. Once you have completed the sign up process, you can upload a presentation to Presefy and then present to an audience. The file format needs to be in PowerPoint or PDF format, which is unfortunate. It would be nice if they could…
I have a hard time remembering all of those classes I took and especially what in the world I learned in them. Part of it is probably because of the volume of it all. Just from sixth to 12th grades, seven classes a day x 180 days x seven years = 8,820 class periods. Part…
As a parent, I am fiercely protective of my children. I want them to be kids. I want them to play sports, get lost in great books, collect bugs in our backyard, and engage with one another creating art projects, choreographing dance numbers, and playing good old fashioned board games. I often feel these traditional…