Out of the Box Approach to Planning Makerspaces
Don’t think outside the box…Think like there is no box. ~ Unknown One of the most rewarding experiences in writing my second book (The Kickstart Guide to Making GREAT Makerspaces, Fall [...]
Fact Check Now Available in Google
Written by Lori Gracey Fact Check by Google is another tool in our digital literacy arsenal that must be shared with students so that we have informed readers and researchers. On April 7, 2017, [...]
Inspiration, Where Are You?: A Guest Post by Juana Medina
Juana Medina’s Pura Belpré winning book, Juana & Lucas, was based on her childhood experience of learning English while growing up in Bogotá, Colombia. In the book, Juana has no interest in [...]
5 Ways I Screwed Up (and Fixed) Project Based Learning In My Classroom
About a month ago I was chatting with a colleague who was inspired to implement project based learning (PBL) in her classroom, took it upon herself to do so, and her first attempt at it was a [...]
5 Ways to Avoid Project Based Learning Fluff #HackingPBL
This post is #3 in a series of 10 posts that serve as extensions of the 10 chapters in Hacking Project Based Learning, which I coauthored with Erin Murphy. This post is an extension of Chapter 3, [...]
Jay Asher and Jessica Freeburg: From Haunted Houses to Hamelin in Piper
We Need To Change The Verb: Adolescents Want To Be Engaged Not Managed
Whenever I am at a family reunion, social gathering with friends, church picnic, or any other event with individuals who are not educators I inevitably get the sympathetic tones, the poor yous, [...]
