With the Common Core’s emphasis on data-driven instruction there is a misguided focus on using technology to deliver content and collect data rather than cultivate learning and stimulate cognitive development.Using education technology isn’t so much about students mastering a device or procedure so much as it is about mastering themselves first.
I’ve seen assessment tools used by teachers in the belief that the tools are an instructional tool. Just because you can get pretty graphs out of a piece of software does not mean it can be used as an instructional replacement. Assessment tools have taken over a lot of edtech, because they are easy to use to generate pretty graphs under the guise that student use of the tool is teaching students. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
This is part 11 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. I’ll be the first one to tell you my memory is terrible, especially with interactions during the day. Of course at the moment I believe I’ll remember it, but a day later and it’s already gone. This is my reason for setting up a journal…
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week I despise April 1st on the internet. Too many sites believing their too clever and posting what they believe is the greatest prank of all….
This is part 13 of 13 things to do before the first day of school. Everyone likes a last hurrah of summer, before getting back into the swing of school. My wife, she likes to watch The Dead Poets Society, whereas I prefer Rodney Dangerfield’s masterpiece, Back to School. Other activities could include clothes shopping, napping, and…
Some people may use a journal, but I find using my email faster and easier to record things that I’ve done or things that I want to remember. How it works When I have information I want to save or to record a task I’ve done, I send it to [email protected]. A Gmail filter automatically…
“A number of studies have shown that mindfulness can improve cognitive abilities, including certain verbal abilities. However, little research has examined how mindfulness can affect verbal learning and memory. Furthermore, no research has examined the mechanism by which mindfulness may improve learning and memory,” said study author Adam Lueke, an assistant teaching professor at Ball…
Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success; it still depends on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural and educational resources. This contradicts a commonly held view that these days that our education system has developed enough to give everyone a fighting chance. Source: Educational success among children of similar cognitive ability depends…
