It turns out that emergency remote instruction is far from new. In 1937, when polio was spreading in the United States, Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. The system helped keep students learning during the three-week shutdown. But it did not lead to a revolution in broadcasting teaching. Will …
PlayPosit is an educational platform that allows you to create interactive video lessons, called LEDs, using videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Panopto, and many other video hosting sources. You can add different interactive features to videos and create immersive learning experiences for your students. You can create a class on PlayPosit and invite students to join. …
A few years ago, the Neosho school district in southwest Missouri realized they were in crisis. Their suicide rates between 2014 and 2018 were well above the national average. In fact, this small area of about 4,700 children used to experience two suicides every year. They knew they had to take action. A few years …
Last week I introduced you to the basics of creating your own educational games using TinyTap’s online educational game creator. In case you missed it, in this post I showed how you can create an educational game in which students hear you read questions out loud and then have to select objects on the screen. …
Last week I introduced you to the basics of creating your own educational games using TinyTap’s online educational game creator. In case you missed it, in this post I showed how you can create an educational game in which students hear you read questions out loud and then have to select objects on the screen. …
The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. In fall 2021, I took my first steps into the world of ungrading. Inspired by Susan D. Blum’s book “Ungrading,” I went fully gradeless in my upper-level Euclidean Geometry class. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. The …
It’s conference season – the time of year when parents and teachers come together to discuss each student’s progress. In most schools, this is a private conversation between a child’s teacher and his or her parents. It usually starts with interesting introductions. The teacher provides an overview of the student’s performance, and then explains the …
I am a true believer in the power of training. I have previously written about the need for teachers to embrace this practice with a growth mindset and to get rid of any negative stigmas associated with educational training in order to realize its potential to improve our craft. Now, I would like to consider …
“Oh, it didn’t explode,” Megan shrieked as her undergraduate teacher supervised pouring the liquid into a beaker at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. “It didn’t explode.” It is not a statement of truth and more an expression of relief. But during 2020, it looked as if everything was exploding with no relief in sight. …
The SAT weighs heavily on our collective imagination—and everyone can picture the nerve-wracking spectacle of students sitting at desks, droning in Scantron shapes in No. 2 pencil, while stern-faced observers roam in search of cheaters. So it’s no surprise that SAT appears in a lot of blockbuster Hollywood movies. And they often have nightmares—as in …