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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. And these are just some of the benefits teachers are reporting. What are makerspaces?

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Why Making and the Arts Need Each Other to Survive and Thrive in Schools

Edsurge

When the visual and performing arts, the musical and recording arts, and the theatrical and graphical arts are seen as mere luxuries or add-ons within the walls of a school, powerful forces are thereby prevented from transforming routine schooling into a renaissance of learning. The non-linearity of learning is not a new idea.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

While I won’t claim to ever be perfect, I have learned so much over the last seventeen years. If this post helps some of you avoid the mistakes I learned early on, then it will accomplish its purpose! I work to reinforce the paperwork flow so we can focus on learning. This lets us adjust our teaching.

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Beijing Science Teachers' NJ Visit to RYNJ, Fair Lawn, and Ridgewood

Saving Socrates

Through engaging in this activity, teachers were able to learn more about sound waves and basic physics. Utilizing the approach of learning through doing, the teachers were simultaneously learning about one of the most innovative concepts in science education today, the Maker Movement.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - It's All About the GEC (GlobalEdCon) - Amazing Keynotes - Announcing the Student Technology Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update November 12th, 2014 One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. Learn more at [link]. Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner?

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

If a student learns quickly and is ready before the other students, we can easily export to Adobe Premiere Pro from Adobe Premiere Rush. VIDEO STREAMS (B-ROLL) When students create a news report, adding “b-roll” makes the report look more professional. During these casual conversations, we’ll discuss what we’ve learned.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science. Legends of Learning has an amazing game based science experiences for students in 3-8 aligning with Next Generation Science and select state standards. And THEN start using it for learning.

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