Habits for a Work-Life Balance
A 2014 study published in the Harvard Business Review found that 94 percent of working professionals said they work more than 50 hours per week, and almost half of those surveyed said they put in 65 or more hours per…
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11 Facts About Music Education
Children who study music tend to have larger vocabularies and more advanced reading skills than their peers who do not participate in music lessons. Studying music primes the brain to comprehend speech in a noisy background. Children with learning disabilities…
The Benefits of Reading to Children (From Prenatal to Adolescence): How to Instill a Love of Reading
After the rush to feed your kids dinner and get them ready for bed, it’s finally your favorite part of the day: story time. Your kids are snuggled up to you as you turn the pages of their favorite storybooks…
45 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web
College researchers often need more than Google and Wikipedia to get the job done. To find what you're looking for, it may be necessary to tap into the invisible web, the sites that don't get indexed by broad search engines.…
Electronic Books and Online Reading
How can I encourage students to read online stories? Are novels available online? How can students get involved in creating online stories? Explore online reading including interactive stories, articles, and books. Involve readers in writing stories including adding to stories,…
Technology and Multiple Intelligences
What are the multiple intelligences? What do they have to do with technology? How can I incorporate these ideas into teaching and learning? In his 1983 book called Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner of Harvard University identified seven intelligences we…
IPad Resources for Students
AccuWeather: Free. AD-HelpDesk: AD-HelpDesk allows secure administrator of Microsoft's Active Directory from your iOS device. This application will work “Out of the box”, requiring absolutely no modifications to your Active Directory infrastructure. (Recommended by a district Tech Director - $24.99)…
Evaluating Internet Resources
How do I evaluate the quality of websites? How can I teach students to evaluate websites? Where can I find checklists for evaluation? Read Evaluating Information: An Information Literacy Challenge by MaryAnn Fitzgerald. SLMR, 2, 1999. Do you believe everything…
Critical and Creative Thinking – Bloom’s Taxonomy
What are critical thinking and creative thinking? What's Bloom's taxonomy and how is it helpful in project planning? How are the domains of learning reflected in technology-rich projects? Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in…
Game-Based Learning: What it is, Why it Works, and Where it’s Going
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. –William Butler Yeats Introduction Deconstruct the fun in any good game, and it becomes clear that what makes it enjoyable is the built-in learning process. To…
