Elementary Education
How’d I Miss Ed Sheeran Singing About How School and Home Differ on Sesame Street?
How’d I Miss Ed Sheeran Singing About How School and Home Differ on Sesame Street?
You gotta love this music video of Ed Sheeran leading the Sesame Street crew in a song about the differences…
Perhaps We Need to Talk About High Fructose Apps for Kids
Perhaps We Need to Talk About High Fructose Apps for Kids
There are compelling arguments for the value of video games in learning and teaching. But what about apps, those ever-tappable…
Babies Are Like Little Linguistic Statisticians
Babies Are Like Little Linguistic Statisticians
A thoroughly intriguing talk about the ways babies learn language. Researcher Patricia Kuhl suggests that babies keep track of sounds…
Teaching Computational Thinking with Stories of Electricity
Teaching Computational Thinking with Stories of Electricity
Kids loves drama. Don’t fight it; embrace it. I recently developed this prototype project for elementary school students where they…
Why to Stop What You Are Doing And Watch this Education Film (in French, but still…it has subtitles)
Why to Stop What You Are Doing And Watch this Education Film (in French, but still…it has subtitles)
If you have never seen this gorgeous documentary about an elementary school teacher in a little school in rural France,…
If Coding is Writing, What’s Feedback Look Like?
If Coding is Writing, What’s Feedback Look Like?
The idea the coding should actually be considered a form of writing is something educators must seriously consider. (See this…
Stephen King Breaks Down Childhood, Not as Horrifying as You’d Think
Stephen King Breaks Down Childhood, Not as Horrifying as You’d Think
It’s one thing to step back and listen to a researcher talk about the uniqueness of the adolescent brain. It’s…
How Webster’s Spelling Book Sought to Unify a Nation
How Webster’s Spelling Book Sought to Unify a Nation
Webster’s famous spelling book (and later, his dictionary) was not what you probably think. Noah Webster created such texts for use…