by Sandy Phillips | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Creativity is widely accepted as being an important outcome of schooling. Yet there are many different views about what it is, how best it can be cultivated in young people and whether or how it should be assessed. And in many national curricula creativity is only...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 11, 2013 | Uncategorized, Web 2.0
Within the wide expanse of social networking, educators appear to be gravitating to more protected and exclusive spaces. While teachers often use such popular mainstream social networks as Facebook, they are more likely to seek out and return to less-established...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Starting the year off with ideas on the best ways to use technology to support learning, Larry Ferlazzo collected an invaluable list of criteria last year from educators, to which he added more resources in his recent blog post for EdWeek.Other posts in the series...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
A paper delivered for perhaps those in the IT industry makes interesting reading for educators. “It’s interesting times in education. There’s a [supposed] Chinese curse, May you live in interesting times. Robert Kennedy famously described them as times of...
