One of the core tenets of our philosophy is that when students revise their writing will improve.
Study after study shows that when students are given the opportunity (or in some cases forced) to revise their work, they will learn the material better.
This works in part because students continuously have to review their writing and course [...]

Yesterday, a local high school teacher mentioned how difficult it is to get her students to remember concepts in her class. It doesn’t matter how often she repeats her message or how many different methods she uses, her students always end up under-performing her expectations.
Sound familiar?
This problem is rampant across education at all [...]

Inertia is powerful.
It’s nearly impossible to drive the speed limit on the interstate when all the cars around you are going five miles over.
Inertia is the resistance to change from the status quo. Inertia is why it is hard drive the speed limit. Inertia is why it is hard to buck the trend.
I recently [...]

Just a quick update for all you new teachers out there. Here is a great article from Tomorrow’s Professor Blog about the ten worst teaching mistakes a professor can make. It’s geared towards engineering, however, the concepts can be applied across disciplines quite easily.
The Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes

Using video games in the classroom is nothing new.
Like most children of the ’80s, many of my earliest memories of using a computer involve “The Oregon Trail“. Developed by a student teacher to supplement his history class, The Oregon Trail allowed students to get a glimpse of life in 19th Century America while also [...]