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One of the most powerful uses of an LMS like Haiku is the ability to easily conduct online discussions with your students.   This article provides excellent tips for establishing "norms" for online discussion to establish and maintain a safe space for conversation online.

This article provides a strong analysis of two kinds of roles teachers might choose to take on in an online classroom discussion.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?  Which would you choose?

This article contrasts question types that foster conversations with those that kill conversation.   Although these tips are directed toward facilitating successful online discussion, they can be applied equally to in-person dicussions in class.  Take a look!

This article provides a nice list of strategies and sentence starters to help students continue the conversation in an online discussion.

This site organizes digital resources to support Middle and High School level courses.  Resources are browsable by Subject, topic, course, or textbook correlation.  Subjects include Arithmetic, Algebra & Geometry, Calculus & Advanced Math, Statistics & Probability, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Economics, History & Government, Psychology, and Religion.   Content providers include Khan Academy, PhEt interactive science simulations, National Repository for Online Courses, and NOAA.

This is a curated collection of digital resources for middle and high school classes in a variety of subjects, but especially math and science. In many cases, the resources are aligned to course textbooks from major publishers.

Executive function stimulation: include questions in homework and tests that require mathematics communication. via Feedly