Found this fantastic infographic touting the success of infographics. Reading it ( or more correctly, viewing it) immediately focused my thoughts on the use of visual texts in classrooms today. Click on the screenshot above to view the animated, interactive info graphic that presents 13 reasons why we should use infographics ( or visual texts […]
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How to Assess Students’ Learning and Performance Learning takes place in students’ heads where it is invisible to others. This means that learning must be assessed through performance: what students can do with their learning. Assessing students’ performance can involve assessments that are formal or informal, high- or low-stakes, anonymous or public, individual or
Reviews & recommendations of tools for education ou may know Joan Young from her prolific tweets as @flourishingkids on Twitter. Did you know she is also quite a technology impresario in her 4th grade classroom and once won an education hackathon for Best Mobile App for the project Schoolhouse Beats? If you have ever wondered
“I must admit that apps for autistic learners are really scarce and hard to find. A few months ago I posted here a list some powerful apps for autism and today while I was looking for new apps that might have been created since the publication of that list I came across this wonderful wheel. I know that the
MET Project :: Welcome. How can effective teaching beidentified and developed? The Measures of Effective Teachingproject aimed to find out. Two-thirds of American teachers feel that traditional evaluations don’t accurately capture the full picture of what they do in the classroom. They want information that they can trust from measures that are fair and reliable.
