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How to Create a School Website that Parents and Others Will Want to Visit

Gaggle Speaks

Our latest ebook, “The K-12 Website Success Handbook,” is a must-read for anyone responsible for procuring a website vendor or managing the day-to-day responsibilities of a school or district website. Ask yourself how easy it is for parents to do the same on your website. The dos and don’ts on your website’s homepage.

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How to Learn Better with Ulrich Boser

ProfHacker

Although the book is not aimed specifically at teachers, there is an appendix that discusses “Strategies for Parents, Teachers, and Managers,” and many teachers will find useful ideas in the case studies and examples throughout the text.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

Once we introduced Minecraft to our learning program, I witnessed several reluctant readers pore over English-language handbooks and websites in pursuit of deeper knowledge of the game, translating to each other and pooling their linguistic resources to come to a common understanding of the text. Language Learning and Minecraft. IrvSpanish.

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IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Learning Confluence

tools shared via the Case Study of INF537 – Digital Futures Colloquium. As part of the INF537 Case Study discussion one of the tools shared is FlipGrid. technologies in higher education: A collective case study. Surry (Eds.), Handbook of Learning Technologies (pp. REFERENCES. Bennett, S.,

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The seminal handbook for teachers and educators who want to bring Maker Education into their schools and classrooms. A relative handful of new or redesigned high schools around the country are organizing themselves around the Maker approach, including the pseudonymous Collaborative Design School that served as the case study for this paper.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Case studies show: the validity of predictive models applied to learning analytics, interventions with at-risk students are effective, and. ” NOTES: Get the “Handbook of Learning Analytics” if you wish to have more detailed info about some of the topics discussed on this post. Does it work?

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10 Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

Selected as one of Business Week’s Best Books on Innovation in 2008, Disrupting Class is filled with fascinating case studies, scientific findings, and insights into how managed innovation can unleash education. A Handbook for Beginning Teachers. by Clayton M. Christensen. by Robert E.