I was the sort of teacher who was always reaching for something new. A different way to run a literacy block, a new structure for group work, a tool I had read about and wanted to try with this particular class in that particular year. Partly, that was for me. I have always…
There is a concept gaining traction across education circles: the design-actuality gap. It describes the distance between how a learning resource, tool, or program was built and how it actually…
There is a pattern I keep seeing in schools, and it concerns me. A teacher will open a lesson on their device, allow students access to the lesson on their devices, and automated instructions and commendations will fill the remainder…
