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Strategies for getting students to quiet down

noisy classroom

noisy classroom

Finding ways to incorporate art into the everyday classroom is essential. It's been proven that early exposure to visual art, music, or drama promotes activity in the brain. What better way to create excitement in the math, science or history classroom? Art helps children understand other subjects much more clearly... from math and science, to language arts and geography. So go ahead, start incorporating art into your everyday teaching.

Finding ways to incorporate art into the everyday classroom is essential. It's been proven that early exposure to visual art, music, or drama promotes activity in the brain. What better way to create excitement in the math, science or history classroom? Art helps children understand other subjects much more clearly... from math and science, to language arts and geography. So go ahead, start incorporating art into your everyday teaching.

10 things for the classroom

10 things for the classroom

Students and educators have a wealth of learning and productivity tools available to them online. Google offers some of the highest-quality resources on the web to meet all your study and teaching needs, and all you need to access them is an internet connection. The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.

100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom

100 Ways To Use Google Drive In The Classroom

Google Classroom

The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con

If there's been a single educational buzzword with traction over the past few years, "student-centered learning" certainly tops the charts. From the TED stage to experimental classrooms, an increasing number of thought leaders, schools and teachers are advocating a handover of the learning experience to the students who must do the learning.

If there's been a single educational buzzword with traction over the past few years, "student-centered learning" certainly tops the charts. From the TED stage to experimental classrooms, an increasing number of thought leaders, schools and teachers are advocating a handover of the learning experience to the students who must do the learning.

Game designers understand how to make games memorable and "sticky" in the sense that, even when you aren't playing the game, you're still thinking about solving its problems and puzzles. As teachers, how might we make our projects and content as sticky as games? How can we engage kids in thoughtful learning even after they leave the classroom? Here are game designers' top five secrets and some tips on using these same game dynamics to make learning in your classroom as addictive as gaming.

Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard's historic Sanders Theatre to hear Michael Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship. Now it's your turn to take the same journey in moral reflection that has captivated more than 15,000 students, as Harvard opens its classroom to the world.

"mputer Science Custom Search is a great place to identify activities for your classroom. You can search on any combination of terms, such as by grade level (e.g. "middle school", "high school"), the type of material (e.g. "lesson plan", "tutorials"), or the computer science topic (e.g. "variables", "loops")."

"omputer Science Custom Search is a great place to identify activities for your classroom. You can search on any combination of terms, such as by grade level (e.g. "middle school", "high school"), the type of material (e.g. "lesson plan","

A good start to using YouTube in the classroom. Give some useful YouTube Channels

This is such a fun, interactive way to get the kids moving... best of all it can take as little time as you need! Thank you for all you do!"

Good ideas!

"Fun & (Mostly) Free Tech Resources for the Music Classroom"

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.

Flipped Learning Toolkit: Flipping the Non-Flippable Classes