Blended learning has been a buzzword in education for a while, but what is it? Blended learning combines the best-of digital learning and face-to-face teaching practices for the purposes of
Doing presentations are a common performance and assessment task in our classes. They are also an important skill to develop in our students, as well, for a variety
During Wednesday’s faculty meeting, you were introduced to our new learning management system (LMS), PowerSchool Learning (PSL). Hopefully, you recognized the ease of use and some of the
One of the best apps on our iPads that provides an engaging and transformative learning experience is Explain Everything. As I said in this post I wrote last
Two years ago, teachers had to “SAMR-ize” their use of technology within one of their units. Even though we don’t have an expectation like this for using SAMR
Viewing and creating models is an important way to learn and show understanding of concepts in a variety of subject areas. Modeling is especially important in science since
Students at SSIS start using WordPress to blog and build portfolios in Grade 3. This continues until Grade 8. Once students reach high school, unfortunately, the process of
When done properly, formative learning processes and activities should be the backbone of success for students. Many people argue that formative learning tasks are more important than summative