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Having a print-rich environment is important," says John Murphy, who is an English and history teacher in Ireland and blogs at Web of Notes. "The surroundings should encourage reading in all its forms and support their choices of reading material. I don't simply mean putting up a poster which tries to promote reading because it's 'cool' - I think they're totally ineffective. Instead, students and teachers could share the name of the book that they're reading at the moment, and offer a sentence about it. It's a great way to share recommendations."

TED-Ed celebrates the Bard's big day by highlighting some of his best language - from his beautiful, romantic metaphors to his pointed, scathing insults.

Strategies for getting students to quiet down

noisy classroom

noisy classroom

Mathematics Teacher Education: Singapore Approach Personal Blog of Dr Yeap Ban Har

It's hard to imagine a single career that doesn't have a need for someone who can code. Everything that "just works" has some type of code that makes it run. Coding (a.k.a. programming) is all around us. That's why all the cool kids are coding . . . or should be. Programming is not just the province of pale twenty-somethings in skinny jeans, hunched over three monitors, swigging Red Bull. Not any more! The newest pint-sized coders have just begun elementary school.

intercultural awareness

Do the technology-based note-taking strategies in your classroom... Adequately Support the students' learning needs? Allow students to Save their notes to multiple locations? Let students Search for salient points? Permit students to Share with peers and teachers?"

Note taking and ineffectiveness of note taking with laptops

Recently, a number of articles have surfaced reporting the ineffectiveness of note taking with laptops, in keeping with the findings of Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer detailed in The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard.

I'm going to try it!

I think there's something so magical about being literally surrounded by books, able to browse and wander and discover independently

What is also magical, is looking at the children's faces when they are being read to by a librarian. e-books and ipads cannot replace this experience.

5 Tips to Help Teachers Who Struggle with Technology

The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con

Flipped Learning Toolkit: Flipping the Non-Flippable Classes

Art stuff!

Lera Boroditsky once did a simple experiment: She asked people to close their eyes and point southeast. A room of distinguished professors in the U.S. pointed in almost every possible direction, whereas 5-year-old Australian aboriginal girls always got it right. She says the difference lies in language. Boroditsky, an associate professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego, says the Australian aboriginal language doesn't use words like left or right. It uses compass points, so they say things like "that girl to the east of you is my sister." If you want to learn another language and become fluent, you may have to change the way you behave in small but sometimes significant ways, specifically how you sort things into categories and what you notice.

At a time when public libraries are starting to offer everything from community gardening plots to opportunities to check out humans for conversations, some school libraries are similarly re-evaluating their roles and expanding their offerings.

What Does the Next-Generation School Library Look Like?

Collaboration: What Does it really mean?

You want students to learn. Shall we play a game? Absolutely! But what is a game?