Critical Thinking: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education By Michael Gorman So many times we hear our students say, “Why am I learning this?”
Emojis. Cause they’re good for kids and fun to use. What’s not to like? By Glenn Wiebe One of my fave conversations centered on the idea of using emojis as a way to help kids make sense of social studies and incorporating them as part of a quality lesson that can help improve student thinking and literacy skills.
Minecraft: Kids Learn 21st Century Skills While Building New Worlds By TL Editors Minecraft is a sandbox game that can be adapted to fit nearly any objective or subject, with lessons lasting as short as one period or the entire year.
Best Mind Map Software of 2019 By TL Editors Software can aid in brainstorming, but not every mind map software will fit the bill for educators.
Mentoring Minds Partners With Clever to Offer Single Sign-on Access By TL Editors “We are excited to partner with Clever in order to provide a seamless experience with the school learning environment,” said Shad Madsen, CEO, Mentoring Minds.
Fake News: 3 Things We Can Learn From Finland (And 3 Cool Tools From Right Here In The US Of A) By Glenn Wiebe In 2014 Finland began noticing intentional misinformation campaigns focused around issues like immigration, the European Union, or whether Finland should become a full member of NATO.
Facilitating Student Owned Inquiry With The Right Question: Deeper Learning By Michael Gorman In a world filled with so much instant information, it is important to teach students to ask even more questions as they seek possible answers.
BACK OFFICE BUSINESS: Mentoring Minds Introduces ThinkUp! for Texas Educators By TL Editors The supplemental curriculum for math, science, writing, English/language arts and reading aligns with TEKS and prepares students for STAAR
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 2: 10 Resources for Student-Owned Questions By Michael Gorman In a world filled with so much instant information, it is important to teach students to ask even more questions as they seek possible answers.
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom: The Driving Question and PBL, Part 1 By Michael Gorman The Driving Question or Investigative Question in Project Based learning and STEM can be often the hardest concept to get across to teachers.
Simple Guide to Analyzing Media with Key Questions from @MediaLiteracyEd By Lisa Nielsen Here's how to get started with teaching students about media literacy.
Follett Challenge ’19 Announces Semifinalists, Video Voting Winners By TL Editors The Follett Challenge again is awarding $200,000 USD in products and services from Follett to the schools/districts that nominated their innovative educational programs.
Computational Thinking: Over 50 Resources To Teach CT Across the Entire Curriculum, Part 2 By Michael Gorman As educators, we must take that next step - teaching students to problem-solve and come up with algorithms of their own.
Computational Thinking: Ten Ways To Promote CT Across The Entire Curriculum, Part 1 By Michael Gorman This type of thinking is important not just in high stake testing, but also success in that world after school.
Sparking Curiosity in the Humanities: Data Visualization By Ramsey Musallam By finding a visualization, downloading it, removing specific information (titles, legends, keys, etc.) and displaying it to students, questions emerge.
Kialo: Versatile Free Platform for Student Debate & Analysis By TL Editors Kialo is a free website designed to foster thoughtful debate and discussion of complex issues.
