8 Fun, Effective Steps
In today’s digital age, social media is a powerful platform for exchanging ideas, sparking conversations, and fostering global connections. However, it’s also a space where disagreements can escalate into offensive and divisive exchanges.
Teaching students how ...
What’s Trending? You May Be Surprised.
Probably since the time when Tyrannosaurus Rex roamed the Earth, the younger members of our family and social groups have insisted on stating their individuality through clothing, music, friends, frenemies, and just about anything else that made t...
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Messiness Isn't Always a Bad Thing
While a certain amount of structure can work in some classrooms, what most teachers need is some messiness—the kind of chaos that excites today’s learners. Need tips and tools to liven up your classroom? Want to reimagine yo...
Together We Can Tackle the Engagement Challenge!
Keeping your students engaged is an ongoing and often onerous and thankless task. Between endless distractions, shifting learning environments, and the sheer diversity of needs in the classroom, getting students to genuinely connect with...
The Joy of "No"
Let’s talk about a magical little word that doesn’t get enough credit: “no.”
For most of us, saying “no” feels like we’re smashing a puppy’s dream. We’re people-pleasers, helper-bees, and overachievers who think every request that comes our way is our responsibility...
From Blank Stares to Bright Ideas: Tackling "I Don’t Know"
Some of the most frustrating three words we all hear from our students are “I don’t know.”
Then there are the physical equivalents: blank stares, shrugged shoulders, averted eyes and noises such as “uhhhhh ….”
Even worse ...
Save the Day:
Be a Learning Lifeguard for Struggling Students!
Part of this text is taken from Learning Lifeguards by Sherri Nelson.
Ok, admit it: when you read the word “lifeguard,” what is the first image that popped in your head? How many recalled a super-cool character from one...
DEI Begins with You
Many in the educational world are already familiar with Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy (CRSP). We intentionally build inclusive classrooms by employing CRSP to:
meet students where they are
better serve their needs
expand students’ worldviews
encoura...
For many of us, using AI art tools feels both cool and scary. But it’s time to take a leap (if you haven’t already done so) and discover the fun, creative side of AI in education.
The aim is not to replace human art but to magnify it, to use AI as a tool for broadening our creative hor...
by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team —
Nov 14, 2024
aiart & ai
Part of the dilemma for school administrators who seek other strategies in responding to the misbehaving student is that they are often no more equipped than the classroom teacher to spontaneously craft an alternative to punishment.
Their training to be an administrator did not include...
This edition of Educator's Edge is published just five days before November 5th, 2024, when arguably history's most polarizing presidential election takes place. We may never again be able to produce a more timely piece.
Is it possible to prevent polarization?
Authors Michelle Blanchet and Bri...
by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team —
Oct 31, 2024
politics
All students must have collaboration skills in order to be competent communicators. These skills include absorbing what is heard, probing, articulating, expressing ideas clearly, and building on others’ thoughts. When well-executed, these skills produce a synergic result.
Without this set o...
