Latest articles by Adam Schoenbart
Sharing Genius: Students’ #GeniusHour Projects
As the end of the school year approaches, I can easily say that #GeniusHour was one of the projects I’m proudest of.
Using Data for Better Learning with #GoogleForms
We hear all about data, but if your experience is anything like mine, you’ve never really been trained to do much with it.
What Students Think About #GeniusHour Part 2: Data
In this article, I will share charts from the summary of responses, detailing their views on #GeniusHour, with some very brief commentary.
#GeniusHour: What Students Think
What do my students think? What value did they find in their work? How have they grown as students, learners, and geniuses?
Reflecting on Technology's Role in Communication & Feedback
Are we giving our students too many options and norms? Is my tech-infused style of communication and feedback too much of a good thing?
My Summer of Learning
I want to rethink a lot of my classroom policies--late work and student accountability, in particular.
#GoogleClassroom vs. #GoogleForms for Interacting with Student Work
Google Apps for Education offers many tools to help teachers improve their workflows, feedback, and collaboration, and for many #GoogleClassroom is essential in managing online work.
Redesigning Learning Spaces: Sharing #GeniusHour Projects
At least one project really stood and was worth sharing on its own, though, as an example of what I think passion-based learning could produce.
4 Tools to Schedule Communication
It’s great when that technology can help make communication easier and more efficient, but it’s even better when it can improve your planning and workflow.
Creating Video Arguments: Sharing Lessons & Products
Students need to know how to craft, develop, organize, and present their writing and ideas.
My Questions About #GeniusHour
In this post, I’ll ask and answer some of the big questions that I’m left with about Genius Hour, my planning, and my students' work.
Making Test Prep Fun with Visual Vocabulary
When vocabulary is killed with skill-and-drill, it often is forgotten after (if not before) the dreaded test.
3 Reasons Educators Should Blog
The more educators take control over the narrative of education, the more power the story has.
Teaching Students to Conduct Action Research: A #GeniusHour Reflection
Now, they are in the last stages of structured research, class work, and analysis as they begin to use what they have learned to produce some sort of product to reflect that learning.
#SchoenTell on #CNN: Promoting Student Voice & Audience With Social Media
My English 10 students had a rare opportunity to share our classroom with the world when CNN reporterClare Sebastianand her team filmed and interviewed my class.
Celebrating Education with #CoSN, #20toWatch, and 100 Posts
It was an honor and thrill to be recognized as a part of these 20 technology educators and leaders in the country, who really all blew my mind with their work and ideas.
Improving Literacy with Technology: Close Reading and Argument with Newsela
I started this week with a challenge to myself: I needed to do more to help my students practice close reading and make progress in argumentative writing.
#GAFE Impact Report: What Teachers Need
The more we understand about teachers’ use, perceptions, and needs, the better they can be addressed to increase teacher comfort and impact and affect student learning.
When the Lesson Fails and Rethinking Lesson Design Matters Most
What to do when a lesson just doesn’t work but the cameras are about to roll. Literally.
The 21st Century Book Report
How do we get students to read more? It’s one of the those questions that just never seems to be answered well enough for an English teacher.
Sharing Students’ Genius: A #GeniusHour Reflection
Students are blogging regularly, completing research, and developing questions for experts and surveys. Next comes the project proposal, the first major checkpoint for my students.
