Creating tech-savvier teachers

46 percent of teachers say they lack the training needed to use technology effectively with students

By:

Alison DeNisco

District Administration, May 2014…

WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- By the time they're 9 months old, babies can use pictures to learn about an object and later recognize the real thing, researchers say.

The findings from their study of 30 British babies appear in the journal Child Development.

"The study should interest any parent or caregiver who has ever read a picture book with an infant," team leader Jeanne Shinskey, lecturer of psychology at the…

THINKING IN PICTURES

with 2006 Updates from the Expanded Edition

Chapter 1: Autism and Visual Thought

Dr. Temple Grandin

I THINK IN PICTURES. Words are like a second language to me. I translate both spoken and written words into full-color movies, complete with sound, which run like a VCR tape in my head. When somebody speaks to me, his words are instantly translated into pictures. Language-based…

10 Free Online Educational Game Sites

MindShift | March 27, 2014 | 20 Comments

By Ryan Schaaf

Web-based games can prove to be a treasure trove of learning opportunities, and there…

8 Ways to Use Music in the Language Arts Classroom

MARCH 28, 2014

Heather Wolpert-Gawron

I think when we talk about using music or art or theater in the Core classes, there is still this persistent suspicion that a teacher who plays music in the classroom must be too "soft" or "granola-y." Don't get angry; I'm just stating an…

North Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts

2014 Conference

Culturally Responsive Literacy

A Message From Your Brain: I'm Not Good At Remembering What I Hear

A new study shows that we are far better at remembering what we see and touch than what we hear.

In the '60s, students studied language with headsets and few visual aids. Not a good idea.

PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Diane Cole

for…

Rubrics in the Gifted Project Based Classroom

Everyone Needs More Apps and Links, Right?

February 13, 2014

This afternoon, I was cleaning out my Google Drive of some old documents and things I no longer needed and came across a presentation that I had planned on…

10 Major Technology Trends in Education

We have a first look at the results from the latest Speak Up survey, which polled hundreds of thousands of teachers, students, administrators, parents and community members about technology trends in education.

• By Chris Riedel
• 02/03/14

According to the latest data, video for homework is on the rise; mobile computing is "beyond the…

Could Your Child Be a Visual Learner?

How Sleep Helps Visual Learning In The Brain

John Schaefer, Director, Children’s Media Workshop

The formula is quite simple:

Media is the language of our culture.

+ The educational system uses virtually no 21^st Century media.

= Disconnect

The solution is also quite straightforward:

Media + Critical…

Of rainbows & butterflies

Usmeet Kaur, Hindustan Times   August 29, 2013