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WHAT ARE YOUR PROCESSING LEARNING PREFERENCES? The Index of Learning Styles (ILS) free questionnaire (available at http://tinyurl.cow/2uxem) evaluates six processing styles: (1) global, (2) sequential, (3) intuitive, (4) sensing, (5) [...]

Many professors pursue a college-level academic career to pass on the excitement about learning that inspired them as students. As someone who has worked as a faculty developer in higher [...]

Abstract As part of a collaborative project between a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and a local private business, we examined the effects of video modeling to teach [...]

When the latest scores of our country's national reading test arrived this spring, they were as depressing as usual: Two-thirds of American fourth-graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational [...]

Introduction Alternative energy sources have become increasingly important as the production of domestic oil has declined and our dependence on foreign oil has increased. Pickens (2008) believes the greatest threat [...]

The numbers are staggering. Across the United States, nearly one in three high school students fails to graduate. Among minority students, the problem is even more severe: Nearly 50% of [...]

MY NINE-YEAR-OLD grandson, Will, is preparing for the science fair. I asked him what question he was going to investigate and he said, Grandma, I just don't really know that [...]

I have always had an interest in paper engineering and pop-up books. As a child, every time I turned the page of a pop-up book, I had no idea what [...]

READY, SET, MOVE--and LEARN! Exercising brains and bodies ... gearing up my physical education class with STEM or STEAM and other subjects has changed the way I teach. As a [...]

We all know that video gaming is a popular form of entertainment with teens and adults. But games can also be excellent educational tools. Gaming technology provides inherently motivating contexts [...]

After an introduction and overview of John Medina's Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Home, Work, and School, as well as a close look at rules 1 [...]

Ready to hover? The Sky Glider activity from Design Squad Nation challenges kids to build a hovering blimp that travels in a straight path across the room. As they explore [...]

SUCCESSFUL LAW STUDENTS INCREASE UNDERSTANDING, RETENTION, AND RECALL THROUGH ABSORPTION LEARNING PREFERENCES. THEY CONVERT LEGAL INFORMATION TO THE UNIQUE FORMATS MOST MEMORABLE TO THEM. THEY USE THEIR PREFERENCES TO ADVANTAGE [...]

'It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.' -Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970) Mentoring is often associated with older wise professionals taking [...]

LAW CLASSES REQUIRE different strategies than undergraduate classes because of format, content, and pace differences. Law professors rarely lecture because they expect students to understand basic concepts during class preparation. [...]

IN many ways, Io McNaughton's classroom is a lot like others in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Most students in the school--located in the center of the city, between [...]

School leaders are increasingly recognized as an important factor in enhancing teaching and learning, yet we have been relatively random in how we prepare and support them. We at Teachers21, [...]

Recognizing student diversity in the classroom is essential to creating inclusive education for all students (Nieto, 1994). However, acknowledging differences in background, culture or experiences can be seen as promoting [...]

Byline: James M. Lang In January 2011, a trio of researchers published the results of an experiment in which they demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts [...]

Byline: Donna Heiland and Laura J. Rosenthal Too many students are learning too little in college. Recent research in higher education has brought that lesson home, even as it has [...]

Byline: David Glenn Villanova, Pa. -- Like several of its peers, Villanova University's College of Engineering has recently shifted its freshman courses from theory to hands-on work. First-year students pour [...]

At New Milford High School in New Jersey, the school’s official Facebook page keeps its 1,100 fans updated on sports events and academic achievements. Students who traveled to Europe this [...]

Director, Center for Creative Instruction and Technology, Delaware Technical Community College Wilmington, Delaware Catherine Lombardozzi is a consultant, facilitator, and director of the Center for Creative Instruction and Technology at [...]

One of the main drawbacks to a passive learning environment is that it provides few opportunities for students to develop the skills that are so important in the digital-age workplace. [...]

In most people's minds, the 'maker movement' in education is associated with STEM-related concepts and technology-based activities. There is good reason for that; it's an approach to project-based learning (PBL) […]

This generation of law students includes many kinesthetic-tactile learners. In the simplest of terms, kinesthetic means movement, and tactile means touch. Kinesthetic-tactile students will differ from one another because of [...]

YesOn a recent Friday, I was trying to activate 27 seniors into our AMDG.brebeuf.org Google Apps for Education domain. The laptop cart was short by five computers, and the access [...]

ACT reading scores have dropped again--to 1970s' levels. No doubt, a variety of factors account for this. But one of them is how we teach. How much impact would reasonably [...]

Children's engineering is on the move ... literally. We are thrilled about how children's engineering is popping up everywhere across the curriculum and around the nation. We are energized about [...]

What does research say about the impact of technology on learning outcomes? It's a question that ISTE's Research and Evaluation Department fields often, but it's difficult to answer. Unfortunately, you [...]

Difficulty securing adequate professional development (PD) has long been a barrier to the effective implementation of educational technology. The authors of the first Office of Technology Assessment report on technology [...]

In what is rather cruel scheduling, the main exam season falls at the time of year when the sun is coming out, the nights are getting longer and the thought [...]

Technology is a fickle friend. It offers us wonderful paybacks like luxury, convenience, communication, healing, exploration, and expansion--even companionship! But as our friendship has grown, so have some of the [...]

Given that I was writing this column at the close of 2009, I couldn't help but be reflective about the year. So, I write this column with no real particular [...]

I wish I'd known that sometimes there's only so far you can get observing or studying by yourself; you must engage. Without full engagement, you won't learn all that there [...]