6 Reasons Why STEM Learning Belongs in the Modern Classroom
Teachers Education
Six things that make STEM leaning so awesome, these factors are also why STEM learning is the new project based learning. Find a new STEM 140 Smrt course in the library.
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Teachers Education
Ideas and tidbits for new teachers! A full list of interesting ideas and fresh takes some old ideas for a successful school year.
5 Myths About Teaching in a Virtual Classroom
Teachers Education
With every new method of teaching comes new issues and in turn solutions to those issues. Here are five myths of teaching in a virtual classroom all of which bring new ideas and approaches to learning.
Is Micro-learning The Solution You Need?
Teachers Education
Is bite-sized learning for you? The learning strategy is largely known for quickly closing skill and knowledge gaps. It seems to be an ideal approach for many. What is Micro-learning?
Optimizing Google Classroom For The Way You Work
Teachers Education
As education evolves, so do the needs of students and teachers. Google Classroom has updated Classroom to give teachers more control over how they organize everything.
Project Based Learning
Teachers Education
Project Based Learning (PBL) prepares students for academic success, personal, and career success, and readies young people to rise to the challenges of their world and the world they will inherit.
How Some Words Get Forgetted
Adults Education
It's the Great American Read!
Gun Scare At School
Adults Education
It started and was going just like any normal day in high school - until Serena was in English class that is, and things went wrong in a hurry, and in a big way.
How to use a semicolon - Emma Bryce
Adults Education
It may seem like the semicolon is struggling with an identity crisis. It looks like a comma crossed with a period. Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti; we're confused about how to use them properly. Emma Bryce clarifies best practices for the semi-confusing semicolon.
Grammar's great divide: The Oxford comma - TED-Ed
Adults Education
If you read "Bob, a DJ and a clown" on a guest list, are three people coming to the party, or only one? That depends on whether you're for or against the Oxford comma -- perhaps the most hotly contested punctuation mark of all time. When do we use one? Can it really be optional, or is there a universal rule? TED-Ed explores both sides of this comma conundrum.
How misused modifiers can hurt your writing - Emma Bryce
Adults Education
Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence-which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. Emma Bryce navigates the sticky world of misplaced, dangling and squinting modifiers.
The colleges where the American dream is still alive
Adults Education
These schools are much better than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton at making poor kids rich.
Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?
Adults Education
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it's called Politeness.
Success at School vs Success in Life
Adults Education
Many people who do brilliantly at school turn out not to do so well at life. Why? Looking to change your career?
Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude
Adults Education
It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we're writing. When is it right to say "the dog and me" and when should it be "the dog and I"? Does it even matter? Andreea S. Calude dives into the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists - who have two very different opinions on the matter.
When to use "me", "myself" and "I" - Emma Bryce
Adults Education
Me, myself, and I. You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably, because they all refer to the same thing. But in fact, each one has a specific role in a sentence: 'I' is a subject pronoun, 'me' is an object pronoun, and 'myself' is a reflexive or intensive pronoun. Emma Bryce explains what each role reveals about where each word belongs.
How to Have a Good Conversation
Adults Education
We too often imagine that 'good conversations' are things we fall into out of luck. Far from it, knowing how to have a good conversation is a skill that can be learnt - and here are the beginning of the rules.