Katherine Haber from SmartBlog on Education recently asked readers and educators to express what the major trends will be in education for 2013; according to Education News, a majority reported that they felt that increasing technology use in classrooms will be a major focus. While a large portion of the teachers that responded said that they use technology fairly regularly during instruction, only a small percentage have “strong” connections between classroom learning and …
Coding the Future: CodeHS and the Importance of Computer Science in High School
Today’s high school students hardly remember the days before Twitter and Google entered our vocabulary, and they’re preparing to enter a job market where technological skill is a basic requirement for a rapidly increasing number of jobs. So why do only a fraction of American high schools offer computer science courses?
While the necessity for high school STEM education has steadily gained attention in recent years, the field of computer science is relatively neglected. Perhaps the most obvious reason for the lack of high school computer science programs is the challenge of attracting and retaining teachers who are qualified to teach computer science. In a
Changing Classrooms with Flipped Learning
All students are familiar with homework, but not all students approach it as a fun or particularly engaging part of their education. Oftentimes, the end of class coincides with a mad dash to answer homework questions before the bell rings as struggling students slip through the cracks and pass their incomplete homework forward. But now a new model of teaching called flipped learning is beginning to take hold in schools across America and change classroom instruction, according to a recent article by Christina Hoag in the Associated Press. Flipped l…
The Myth About Computer-Based Reading Software?
This blog was originally published on Finding Common Ground at Education Week by Peter DeWitt on January 20th, 2013 6:52 AM.
It's the 21st Century thing to do. Take students who are struggling readers or those classified as special education students and put them on an interactive reading program to learn how to read. Many educators buy into it. After all, kids are enveloped in technology from an early age and these programs have sound, graphics and the programs ask in-depth com…
The Debate Over Guns in Schools Heats Up
In response to the school shooting tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, the California State Teachers Retirement System has announced that it will sell all of its stock holdings that are associated with firearms. Such holdings include the Freedom Group, producers of one of the brands of semiautomatic weapons that Adam Lanza used during his rampage, according to The New York Times.
Since this announcement, other states have been looking at their retirement investments to find out exactly whom they have been supporting. In this public act of retaliation against automatic and semiautomatic weapon accessibility, the debate over …
Announcing the Teach100!
Teach.com is proud to announce the launch of the Teach 100: an amazing new resource that ranks the internet’s best educational blogs. The Teach 100 utilizes dynamic technology to maintain a current ranking of educational blogs updated on a daily basis. Each blog is scored based on a variety of metrics--ranging from their social reach, the frequency of their activity, their Google authority, RSS activity, and more--to ensure a comprehensive score that assesses numerous aspects of a blog’s impact and reliability. The blogs are ranked in comparison to the scores of the other blogs on the list, and that ranking may change daily as the blog’s score changes.
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