In addition to the thousands of posts I’ve written in this blog over the past six years and my five books, I’ve also written over one hundred articles for different publications. You can access all of them here. You can … Continue reading →

I’ve tried to apply the idea of looking for assets instead of deficits throughout my community organizing and teaching careers, and have written a lot about it in my books and in articles. One key strategy to make this work … Continue reading →

Newsela provides several “levels” of the same newspaper articles, along with accompanying online quizzes, that students can read and take. Teachers can create a virtual classroom, assign articles and monitor student progress. I wouldn’t say it promotes higher-level thinking but, … Continue reading →

Over at his blog, Larry Cuban has published a commencement address by Elliot Eisner, Professor Emeritus of Education and Art at Stanford University. Here’s an excerpt:

Flow Reader looks like a nice alternative to Google Reader, and you can read more about it at Richard Byrnes’ blog. For a person like me who gets stuck in his ways, it’s particularly nice since it seems to look … Continue reading →

eduCanon is a new site that lets teachers create video lessons relatively easily, along with have a virtual classroom where you can monitor student responses to questions you include in the lesson (thanks to TechCrunch for the tip). I’m adding … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I posted Questions About Sugata Mitra & His “Holes In The Wall.” Here’s a guest post Rory Gallagher wrote in response. Feel free to continue the conversation in the comments section. Rory Gallagher’s “bio”: Teacher of … Continue reading →

Q & A Collections: Student Motivation is the title of my new post at Education Week Teacher. It brings all my Ed Week posts on student motivation together in one place. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles … Continue reading →

Last week, I published a guest piece over at Education Week sharing what I was planning on reading this summer, and thought I’d publish a short post here sharing what my writing projects are over the same period of time. … Continue reading →

Jason Flom shared this great video on the importance of making mistakes. I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures.