Why Teachers Don’t Use the High-Quality Instructional Materials They’re Given? is a great question that serves as a headline to a recent The 74 column. The author does provide an answer that partially answers it – because many of our students can’t access the supposed “grade-level” material present in it. Another answer, of course,…
I use short, funny video clips a lot when I’m teaching ELLs, and you can read in detail about how I use them in The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them). In short, there are many ways to use them that promote speaking, listening, writing and reading (including having students describe…
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking…
PBS KIDS has introduced a groundbreaking new animated series, Carl the Collector, which debuted on November 14, 2024. Announced earlier this year at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, the 2D series is tailored for children aged 4 to 8 and marks the network’s first show to feature autistic central characters. Created by New York…
Teachers Do Their Best Work When Focusing on ‘Big Ideas’ is the headline of one of my recent Ed Week columns. Teachers who instruct in deeper ways say that not only are they happier and more fulfilled, their students are, too. Here are some excerpts: Teachers Do Their Best Work When Focusing on ‘Big Ideas’…
I’ve previously posted very positively about Google’s Read Along tool, which offers hundreds of read aloud books, questions that students can answer about them, and the ability to assess students’ reading ability when they, in turn, read the book back to the computer. You can check it out here. The big problem, though, was for…
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