Here is the round up of all 13 posts of ways teachers can hack their learning. We’ve all been through district led PD. Some good, some bad, but not very often is it something that teachers feel personally invested. Daniel Pink put forth in Drive that motivation boils down to three ideas: autonomy, purpose, and…
Sleep! is part 13 of 13 Ways Teachers can Hack their learning. From a motivation point of view, this is the easiest hack on the list. Practicality, however, gets in the way. Starting in August, teachers start to become more and more sleep deprived. They may not notice it, but it’s there. You’ll see the…
Eat healthy and Exercise is part 12 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. I will be the first to admit that I’m not very good at eating healthy (Ho Hos and Diet Code Red Mountain Dew FTW!) but I’m much better at exercising (13 marathons and 3 half-marathons!). Two of the best things…
Present at a conference is part 11 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. One of the best ways to learn is to share and help others learn. This is only of the tenets of teaching, but once we become teachers, we kind of forget about sharing and teaching our peers. You may feel…
Listen to Podcasts is part 8 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Hot on the heels of RSS is Podcasts, a technology that relies on RSS to work. What are podcasts? The idea of podcasts has been around since the 1980s, but what is now commonly referred to as podcasts started in the…
Read is part 4 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Read! No, I’m not being ironic. Reading is a pretty popular activity in the United States, with over 75% of adults having read at least one book in the last year. As school teachers, we get caught up in all of the…
Take an online course is part 4 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Take an online course Online courses aren’t just for students, there are many ways teachers can take an online course to increase their knowledge and get experience. Depending on your school district and local professional development…
This is part 2 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Why Twitter? Twitter launched in July of 2006 as a social network for SMS (cellphone text messaging). Labeled as a “microblogging” site, Twitter was a way to post short. 140 character messages to the world. Much like blogging, Twitter is…
This is part 1 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Why blog? There are several reasons to blog, but we seem to get caught up in the reasons to not blog. To overcome this friction, we have to not only see the benefits of blogging, but to also try to…