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Bottom-up Teaching: Lessons Learned from My Special Needs Aunt
I have a special needs aunt and she has had the greatest influence on my teaching abilities. My aunt has taught me skills that are valuable to any content area and profession. What has she taught me? How can you apply what she has taught me? I share with you in hope that you too … Continue reading
The Honest Truth About Spell Check…Sincerely, Teacher
Dear Students: Spell check is notorious for being viewed as dumbing down your spelling abilities. Throughout my years in the teaching profession I have heard rants from many teachers about the evils of spell check and how it makes students lazy and unable to learn how to spell correctly. The naysayers who view this way … Continue reading
Give Students a Voice Through Blogging
Writing is one of the key skills that students, particularly those in high school, need to put effort into developing. Rather than assigning boring reports or essays, one of the best ways to help students write is to give them a chance to write about the things they are genuinely interested in. As students head … Continue reading
1 Year Later- Why Teachers Should Join Twitter…What I have Learned as a Twitter Newbie
What is the first thing you think of when you think of Twitter? Most people think of a popular social networking site that people use for socializing, sharing random opinions and befriending cool celebrities. Think of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Yes, they are no longer together. But, they were one of the Twitter trend … Continue reading
Wisdom of the Great Depression Generation- Lessons Learned from My Grandparents
We often say to listen to the advice of our elders because they have years of wisdom. Better yet, listen to the advice of our elders of the Great Depression Generation. They have wisdom beyond their already long lives and there is much we can learn from them. I recently lost one of my grandparents and … Continue reading
The Times They are a-Changin’: How Gen Y Changed the Way We Learn
(Zach Buckley is new to the adaptivelearnin community. He will be a regular blog contributor. The article below is his first contribution. He adds insight into technology and generation Y. I’m from generation X, so reading his prospective is enlightening. Welcome Zach and enjoy his contribution!) Generation Y refers to those of us born … Continue reading
Twitter #hashtag Education Chats: Social History Infographics
Compilation of Twitter #hashtag Education Chats- A One Month Social History from Feb. 22 to March 22, 2012. How does your favorite education chat compare? Who are the most influential Tweeters for your favorite education chat? *Please note that due to the enormous volume of education Twitter chats, I could not include all of them here. I … Continue reading
To Twitterize or not to Twitterize…that is the question?
Twitter is a cultural phenomenon encompassing both personal and professional purposes. I use Twitter professionally. I just started using Twitter about 7 months ago. I rebelled against using it for a few years. I finally reluctantly joined after being persuaded by my husband that there were great benefits. He said there were so many networking and … Continue reading
Transparency in Education
shadow puppetsBy Hedgehog83 (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Transparency in education is vital. With integration of new technologies in the classroom: SmartBoards, iPads, mobile devices and so forth, the old transparencies and overhead projectors are becoming obsolete. While embracing new technologies and innovation of new learning platforms, extinction of these adaptive learning … Continue reading
Best List of Web 2.0 Resources I’ve Ever Seen- Wiki Web 2.0 Guru
I found this list of web 2.0 resources for teaching and education yesterday from a Wiki called “Web 2.0 Guru“, by Cheryl Capozzoli. I want to share this with you because it is by far, the best list of web 2.0 resources for teachers I have ever seen. Enjoy searching, bookmarking, referencing, planning and having … Continue reading
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