Tweet It’s widely understood that visual learning can improve students’ comprehension, retention and critical thinking in the classroom. Yet, you can’t just throw any visual learning activity into an assignment and expect enormous results from your students. These visual learning tools, be it graphic organizers, compare and contrast diagrams, plot summaries or character analysis webs, Read more »
Tweet Improving education ultimately comes down to supporting our teachers and helping them develop and expand their methods of teaching as the world evolves and the demands of educating our youth change. To me, this means giving teachers the fundamental building blocks and tools to prepare students for the 21st century. Yet, what are those Read more »
Tweet In his State of the Union address last January, President Barack Obama put education at the top of the agenda. These themes for education reform and change have rippled through the nation with his recent campaigns for the Race to the Top.1 There’s a great deal of talk about technology integration, 21st century skills, Read more »
Tweet Educators understand the importance of the entire writing process. They know that proper pre-writing, planning and outlining improve students’ overall writing proficiency. This is why students are often required to show that they’ve moved through these steps by turning in an outline with their completed essay. Yet, how often do your students – underestimating Read more »
Tweet In the classroom, there are very distinct roles. A teacher works with a classroom of students to guide their development of knowledge and skills. Students learn from the teacher and the course by completing assignments and projects. When imagining this, we visualize a teacher at the front of the room and students working at Read more »
Tweet In the past, I have discussed how the Internet, technology and computers have connected us to more information and individuals around the globe than ever before. This connection to everything has developed into a learning device and mode of accessing information from within the classroom. This week, I stumbled across a video titled, “Sugata Read more »
Tweet A couple weeks ago, Pete MacKay featured an infographic recommended by educator Linda Hyler on The Teacher List, a weekday newsletter highlighting interesting sites around education.1 This infographic places digital, Web 2.0 tools into Bloom’s Taxonomy, making it Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. While reviewing the diagram, I was thrilled to see our newest online writing, visual thinking Read more »
Tweet At our most recent webinar on transforming struggling students into proficient thinkers and writers with Webspiration Classroom™ service, one of our attendees asked a fabulous question: How does visual learning improve students’ writing skills? While we often say that our visual learning tools, like Kidspiration®, Inspiration® and Webspiration Classroom, improve writing and support the Read more »
Tweet The Internet has become a more widely available resource in school districts nationwide. The use of the Web has created a new era of access to information never experienced in the history of mankind. This access also extends to the classroom. Students can now rely on assignment information posted to school portals, email their Read more »
