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We have to carefully build our classroom and educational space online before we start populating it, lest text, hierarchical menus, and pop-up windows be confu…

A recent study found that those who take longhand notes--rather than type-- are better at long-term recall.

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Wow! Seven years ago, I began writing this blog. Nearly fourteen thousand posts, twelve hundred “The Best…” lists, five million visitors, and six books later, I’m still at it….I hope I’ve got at le…

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I’ve written several posts recently about TED Talks, and thought I’d pull together a short list of resources that would be helpful to other teachers (and me) as we consider how to use t…

It’s time for my annual list of most popular posts. You can see previous popular post lists here. You might also be interested in seeing a similar list at my Education Week Teacher advice blo…

To all my critics, some who either posted comments to my open letter to Diane Ravitch or tweeted them or blogged them: thanks for the discussion. Many of you made thoughtful points that can …

To continue our look at rubrics and models, I offer below a revised version of a dialogue I wrote 20 years ago to attempt to clarify what a rubric is and what differentiates good from not so good r…

It was not that long ago when I did a workshop where the staff from the Dodge Foundation (who were funding my work at the time) took me aside at the break because they were concerned with my consta…

These books are mostly written by teachers for teachers. They range form the latest research on students, teachers talking about overcoming inequality to help students learn, and great techniques every teacher can use in their classroom.

All learning occurs in a social context. In any learning process you can be 100% sure that you will fail Learning is a process of disciplined mistake-making An environment of safety is crucial to learning