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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.

Strategies for getting students to quiet down

noisy classroom

noisy classroom

5 Tips to Help Teachers Who Struggle with Technology

The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con

Flipped Learning Toolkit: Flipping the Non-Flippable Classes

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.

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

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.