Great For Summer Science Lessons: 50 Wild Facts About Plants
It’s summer, which means you’re most likely out of the classroom and enjoying the weather and all that comes with it. For many of us, this means either attempting to grow a few things in our own...
View ArticleHow MOOCs Are Being Used In Europe
One of the wonderful things about MOOCs is that they don’t force students to be in a particular location in order to ‘attend’ class. Especially if you’re looking for a course that will help you gain a...
View ArticleWhich Universities Are Effectively Using Social Media?
We post a lot of resources here about using social media in the classroom – it is one of the most requested topics, most often emailed about, most popular posts and overall topics in general for...
View ArticleHow Homework Works In Finland (Hint: There Isn’t Any)
When we talk about how our education system is failing our students, there are a lot of different options presented on how to ‘fix’ it. Everyone has an answer, a promising new way of thinking, a...
View ArticleHow Teens Are Really Using Social Media
A lot of kids are using social media these days, and even if that isn’t surprising to you, it may be surprising to you just how many of them are using it and just how much. Leveraging these popular...
View ArticleA Surprising Look At College Graduation Rates In The US
When we compare our education system in the US with others around the world, we often talk about test scores. Which countries boast the highest test scores in Math and Science? Which have the lowest?...
View ArticleA Scary Look At How Busy You Are On Facebook
It seems that as of late, we’ve been seeing a lot more focus on using Twitter in the classroom (and for professional development) than Facebook. That said, Facebook is still out there, and in force....
View ArticleThe Beginner’s Guide To The Internet Of Things
What does ‘the internet of things’ mean, anyway? It is a term that I’ve heard periodically over the past few years but explored little and never wrote about here, as it doesn’t specifically refer to...
View ArticleThe 6 Levels Of Bloom’s Taxonomy, Explained With Active Verbs
The various levels of Bloom’s (Revised) Taxonomy are pretty well known to most teachers at this point. The gradated levels of critical thinking allow teachers to build lesson plans and identify...
View ArticleHow Involving Students Can Prevent School Violence
Whether you want to believe it or not, school violence is a thing. We’re not talking about bullying (either in person or cyber-bullying) though those are clearly huge issues for school aged children as...
View ArticleWhy Students (And Teachers) Need To Be Physically Active In The Classroom
There’s a ton of buzz in the education world about how dwindling school budgets and pressure to improve test scores are taking time away from recess and physical education so that students can spend...
View ArticleWhat Differentiation Is (And Is Not)
What is differentiated learning, anyway? Is it synonymous with personalized learning? Or personal learning? The recently released second edition of the book “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to...
View ArticleHow Visuals Help Us Learn
Since we talked yesterday about the plethora of different types of visuals available to present information, we thought it might be useful to take a look at why visuals are useful as classroom tools,...
View Article8 Effective Ways To Get To Know Your Students
One of the challenges of back to school time is that you’re filled with a classroom (or classrooms) of students you don’t know. The students you just spent the last year with know your style,...
View ArticleWhy You Should Be Using Video In Your Classroom
Using video in the classroom has come a long way from a TV and VCR on a cart to watch a movie during class (The standard about ten gazillion years ago when I was a student). There are a ton of...
View ArticleDo You Need a Social Media Detox?
We all know that social media can be a great tool for teachers, both in the classroom and for professional development purposes. Here at Edudemic, we encourage you to do things like use Twitter to...
View ArticleWhy Do Students Really Take Selfies?
You may currently be entrenched in back-to-school craziness, but if you find the time to pick your head up out of your piles of (hopefully paperless) paperwork and organization tasks, you’ll see your...
View ArticleHow Math Is Taught In South Korea
As we all know from the results of The Learning Curve 2014, released by Pearson, South Korea’s education system has all rights to be called the best one in the world. Their ability to prepare young...
View ArticleAre College Students Really Obsessed With Technology?
Not too long ago, I read a post written by a teacher that said “Our students get younger every year”. While this is obviously not true unless you’re measuring their age in relation to yourself, as you...
View ArticleA Straightforward Guide To Creative Commons
Way back when, research meant going to the library, finding something in a book, and indicating what book you found the information in when you created your bibliography. The internet has brought a...
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