Educational Trends

10 Great Ways to Use Social Media in Classroom

An educational theory gaining momentum in the literature may open the door to increased use of social media in schools.

One year after implementing social media as a central classroom component, teacher Brianna Crowley and her students reflect on how to improve their efforts.

We've combed through thousands of resources to offer you our first official guide to flipped classrooms. It's a curated list just for you.

In 2004, a former hedge fund analyst began recording and posting videos of himself explaining some math techniques, posting the videos to YouTube. By 2012, Salman Khan had more than 3,000 lessons online, 140 million views, and a reputation as an education guru. Khan Academy is not a panacea for education, however. Ultimately, success with a flipped class is a combination of understanding your pedagogical goals and using the technology and method to support them.

The classroom lecture—it's been criticized, despised, even lampooned. An entire generation of moviegoers can recite Ben Stein's plea for students to wake up and respond to his dead-pan, droning lecture in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. ("Anyone? … Anyone?")

The flipped classroom model is here to stay. This model, although not a golden bullet, puts the student firmly into the educational process. Think ...

To clearly understand the differences that a flipped classroom model brings, what constitutes a tradition STEM college classroom environment needs to be established.  In a typical college classroom, students sit quietly at individual desks, listen to lectures, quietly take notes, seldom interact, move, or discuss, and rarely participate in active learning techniques.  The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. The professor posts pre-recorded lecture videos on an online education platform such as Coursera to be viewed by students before class and dedicates class time to exercises, projects, or discussions.  The flipped class format not only takes advantage of all of the benefits of online education previously discussed including retrieval learning techniques and mastery learning but also possesses some additional benefits.

National Teacher of the Year Finalist, Rob Stephenson, presents instructional strategies and the integration of STEM education challenges in his third grade ...

Innovative and effective practices at Cleveland's MC2 STEM High School are driving learning and higher achievement for students in a district where every student qualifies for free- or reduced-price meals.

There are many ways to combine STEM and special education that allow you to reach students with different needs.