Digital Notetaking to Stimulate Their Minds

Enjoyed these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. I am not a teacher, but an awakener. – Robert Frost Many students take notes, because the teacher requires it, but many do not know how to take notes effectively. Students also don’t know how to preserve paper notes […]

Spice Up That Lecture! 20+ Ideas & Resources

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Undergraduate students taught by lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than those involved in active learning. – Bajak, A. (2014) In my new book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers, I talk about how even the best lectures aren’t fair for the […]

Making an Impact with Problem / Project Based Learning

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. – Einstein Our learners are creating, inventing, and problem-solving with digital devices in order to change the world. Unfortunately, too many students who transform the world often do it outside of school, on their own time, and find […]

Creating Digital Books to Help Others: 20+ Apps, Tools & Ideas

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning, The 30 Goals Challenge, or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com! During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys and Girls Club. I still have my construction paper book with my poor drawings. My artistic abilities didn’t matter […]