The lesson plan. One of the most time-consuming and yawn-inspiring requirements of every teacher. Add standards such as the Common Core and specific learning objectives to the equation and you’ve got a full on brain-fry. Teachers are always researching ways to reduce the time spent creating inclusive and interactive lessons that they can edit and…
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When it comes to assessment it isn’t up to students to show teachers what they know, it is for teachers to allow students to show what they know. Think about your favorite song for a minute. What is it that makes it enjoyable, melody, tempo, instruments? No one has ever described a great song because…
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Four years ago, EdCamp was set up by a small group of educators, inspired by the idea of providing a free space to generate and share ideas and to promote organic discussion. The name is derived from BarCamp, a concept that stemmed from the desire for an alternative to the traditional invitation-only, annual conference that…
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid” – Albert Einstein. This somewhat magnanimous statement actually has some foundation in decades of research into education, most notably that of Benjamin Bloom. Bloom identified a significant…
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No two people are alike…we are all individuals. What works in a classroom for one individual may not work for another. Some students may be auditory learners while other may be more apt to understand new content when they can see it and touch it. Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist and professor of neuroscience from…
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As an educator people sometimes recommend sites or programs to me that I find don’t live up to the hype. It’s frustrating and time consuming to wade through the massive amount of new web apps popping up everyday. What’s The Easiest Way To Get Started? Then, every once in a while, I’ll come across a…
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The SIIA (The Software & Information Industry Association) have just announced the winners for the 2014 NextGen Awards in Mobile. Fishtree is proud to be recognized as the NextGen Most Disruptive and Overall Mobile Award Winner. The following interview between Rhianna Collier, Vice President of Software Division at SIIA, and Terry Nealon, CEO of Fishtree was…
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Hi, I’m Jennifer Dragotta, a 3rd grade teacher from South Carolina. As an educator I wish I had more time and resources. I never seem to have enough time in the day to teach everything I wish or plan everything I want for every child. I often have to go to several different sites to find new…
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“Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” These are the stirring words of education activist Malala Yousafzai, uttered to the United Nations Youth Assembly on her 16th birthday, a…
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Shouldn’t education be student-centric then, with one single aim – keep students happy and deliver on better learning outcomes? As Douglas Green suggested yesterday at weekly #edchat discussion: “In business, the customer is the number one you need to satisfy. I think it’s good to think this way regarding the students.” This statement caught the…
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