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Speed Reading by James Manktelow
Share Think about how much reading you do every day. Perhaps you read the newspaper to catch up with what’s going on in the world. You browse countless emails from colleagues. And you then
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Educational Systems Can Kill Creativity by Ken Robinson
Share Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity
Read More »Helping Students Motivate Themselves By Larry Ferlazzo
Share This piece was adapted from Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges by Larry Ferlazzo, available April 22 from Eye on Education. A teacher thinks: I work so hard at trying
Read More »AMPing Up Our Teaching to Increase Intrinsic Student Motivation by Sherrelle Walker
Share Think about this discussion on motivation presented in 2009 by Daniel Pink, career analyst, ex-speech writer for Al Gore, and author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. He described how
Read More »How Do You Learn by Randall Shirley
Share Which One Are You? – How Do you Learn? Do you ever wonder why some people are known as “straight A students” while other people struggle in school – even though they’re smart?
Read More »Brain Benefits of Being Social by Lumosity
Share You’ve heard it before and will probably hear it again: we have been created to be social. Social ties improve humans’ ability to survive and procreate. In fact, it can be argued that
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