

3 Lessons for a New (Old) Editor
Above is a screen shot of the first online version of the Franklin County Technical School's student newspaper, Under the Wing. (We're...


EdTech Investors, Meet Our Server
Depending on who is doing the counting, venture capital funding for educational technology runs between $500 million and $2 billion a...


Re-thinking prep time
One aspect of teaching that I’ve come to appreciate more and more as the year has gone on is the importance of being deliberate. Partly...


How TP-CASTT helps students get poetry
; TP-CASTT (for Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title and Theme) is a popular way to teach poetry analysis especially to...


Trying to solve the differentiation riddle
Differentiation has proven a struggle for me this year but over the past month I’ve pushed a little harder and had some success,...


A Media Website Is a Tool, Billy...
In teaching digital litearcy and citizenship, try to combine skills teaching and critical thinking There's a famous scene in the movie...


How My Journalism Students Got Too Smart About Media
They've come to understand all too well the essential equation of the news business This trimester I began teaching 12th grade students...


The Digital Savvy Divide and What We Need to Do About It
Much has been made of the digital divide, the gap between rich and poor when it comes to access to the internet and the digital...


Check Out This Writing Checklist for Kids with ADHD
Since December I’ve been working after school with three boys who have ADHD and pretty big issues when it comes to writing. Two are...


High-Tech Vocab Drills: Engaging But...
Sites like vocabulary.com interest students and show promise as instructional tools, but we won't know for years if digital is really a...




































