Tweet So your students have sat down at their computers to begin brainstorming. They have a main idea in the center of their screens and maybe they’ve started to RapidFire® every concept that comes to mind on the topic. Soon their screens are full of words, pictures and symbols that represent their thoughts. This visual Read more »
Tweet This week’s featured Inspired Site is a blog post titled “Educator 2.0: The Future of Education is Online” by Adrianne Stone who is a biology teacher and consultant for online instructor training. Adrianne covers topics in elearning and edtech with a vision for the future 21st century classroom. This past July her featured post Read more »
Tweet Writing skills are critical for educational achievement, success after graduation, career performance and life skills. With the continually growing use of digital communication methods including word processing, blogs, email, texting and other Internet-enabled forms, written communication skills are imperative for students to compete in the world today. However, writing does not come naturally to Read more »
Tweet Technology in the last five to ten years has dramatically affected the way we communicate and collaborate. Students today, who are the digital natives of our world, communicate naturally through programs on computers and applications on mobile devices. Between texting, social networks and email, students understand that our world collaborates and communicates via technology Read more »
Tweet Paul Richard, the Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking, says critical thinking is “thinking about thinking while thinking in order to think better.”1 This is perhaps a playful way of reinforcing what I believe, which is that critical thinking is a core backbone to learning. The ability to Read more »
Tweet 21st century skills – the words have been buzzing through speeches and between conversations at education conferences and on the web for a couple of years now. National organizations like the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), advocate and define the 21st century skills pertinent to students’ success in their studies and careers after Read more »
