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6 Second Learning with Vine: 22+ Ideas & Resources
Part of the Byte-sized Potential and Mobile Learning categories The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. – Yousuf Karsh Most of our students love learning and creating even if they do not...
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Pump Students Up with Digital Icebreakers
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” by Plato Throughout my teaching years, I’ve struggled with getting my students or trainees to readily...
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The Conversation We Need To Have With Leadership
This post is part of Scott McLeod’s Leadership Day 2014 PD should give your Ts a GEM: it should “Grow You”, “Engage You”, and “Mean something to you” — GNichols (@Think_teach) August 6, 2014 Mission:...
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This Year be an EduHero!
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Our world is full of hero potential waiting to be motivated,...
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31 Days of Digital Goodies
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar One way to engage students is to create interactive digital calendars. December is the month for advent calendars, so I’ve created the Digital Ideas 2014...
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Creating Digital Books to Help Others: 20+ Apps, Tools & Ideas
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys and Girls Club. I still...
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Ways to Get Technology into Your Classrooms
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I’ve been quite blessed to travel to over 20 countries and help teachers integrate technology even in places with very little...
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Making an Impact with Problem / Project Based Learning
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Einstein Our learners are creating,...
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Student Reflection with Digital Portfolios
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter Drucker A...
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Digital Ways to Celebrate December Holidays
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – Hamilton Wright Mabie Students are excited about...
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Newsworthy! Learning as Reporters & Journalists
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and,...
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Spice Up That Lecture! 20+ Ideas & Resources
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Undergraduate students taught by lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than those involved in active learning. – Bajak, A....
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Teach Them Kindness
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. – Bob Kerrey Teaching...
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Use Humor to Inspire Learning
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. – Dr. Seuss Often, you will see me...
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Digital Notetaking to Stimulate Their Minds
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost Many students take notes, because the teacher requires it, but many do not...
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Welcome to the 30 Goals for Teachers! Cycle 6: Inspire Forward
Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward! “How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” – Anthony Robbins Each year, teachers worldwide aim to...
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Goal: Be Someone’s Champion
Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward! “Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they...
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Goal: Send Them on Learning Missions #EduLS
Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward! “People don’t have a propensity for laziness. People have a propensity for hard work. It just needs to be work that matters to them.” –...
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Ideas for Promoting Digital Diversity
For the next week, I will be participating in many events to support gender and cultural diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Below find a list of these events and...
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Inspire with Poetry! 10+ Ideas & Resources
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost April is National Poetry month and the perfect excuse to inspire your students with poetry no matter...
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