All in Digests
First, some statistics. We LOVE statistics! Then we'll get to our main point. Across the United States and the World, there are a lot of teachers. In Fall 2016 there were approximately 3.1 million full-time equivalent teachers in public schools with another 400,000 ...
When students give feedback to teachers on their teaching one point that often comes up is that they wish there was more discussion. However, when teachers try to get discussions going in the classroom it often fails because only a few students contribute or ...
According to the dual coding theory (1), we process verbal and visual information through separate channels. We’ve written about how to study using dual coding (and the article was recently picked up by Digital Promise); we also had a student write about how she uses dual coding to study ...
Teaching students to write well can be extremely difficult. As professors, we’re always looking for good resources and tips for developing our students as writers at the college level. We’ve posted digests with writing resources for teachers and students, resources to assist with grading writing, and resources to help teachers teach about plagiarism, and help students recognize plagiarism. Today’s ...
Steve Jobs once said: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because ...
Many of us in education are avid writers – or at least we’re trying really hard to keep up with that status. We’re writing blog posts, books, articles for the popular press, research summaries for colleagues, research articles for journals, and the list goes on. ...
