Tip of the Week – Election 2008 resources

With the Democratic Convention finished and the Republican version soon to be over, we can all settle in for three months of presidential campaigning. To help make sense of this with your kids, I’ve listed a few resources that might be useful. Pick and choose the ones that work best for you! (Add your own [...]

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Grading with Games: Interview with James Paul Gee

The recent issue of Edutopia features an article describing the Top Ten Predictions for the future of education. At number four? Serious Gaming: Computer Games Become Potent Student Motivators and Evaluators. The authors suggest that games can be used not just to motivate and engage learners but to assess them as well. As part of [...]

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Survival is not mandatory!

Over at Open Education, Thomas J. Hanson writes about a 2006 report by Dr. David Wiley to the Panel on Innovative Teaching and Learning Strategies for the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education. In his report, Wiley suggests that
“higher education has adapted very little” to the changes described by Friedman in [...]

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Tip of the Week – Student learning inventories

One of the most important things that teachers can do at the beginning of the school year is to learn as much as possible about their students. Reading levels, family / home situations, hobbies and outside activities are just some of the factors that impact learning.
Perhaps the most important, and I think one of the [...]

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Shocker! Video games good for you says APA

Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers’ dexterity as well as their ability to problem-solve – attributes that have proven useful not only to students but to surgeons, according to research discussed Sunday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
As most of you already know, I am a huge [...]

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