ArticleField.comInternet's Fastest Growing Free Content Article DirectoryMaybe you have had an experience like the one I have had: an education professor who has never been a classroom teacher. Or an education professor who was a classroom teacher so long ago that all that remains of the experience are some anecdotes from a lost era. Or an education professor who may have […]
As this project and many others have shown, collaborative learning and online discussion forums can be used effectively to help students develop real-world skills and engage in authentic learning. But this project also demonstrates how combining these two teaching practices can yield dramatic results. When students are able to take charge of discussion topics as […]
We live in a highly textual world. Texts meet us and our students at every turn: on our cell phone screens, computer screens, in the news tickers that run along the bottom of our television screens, in newspapers, magazines, books, trade newsletters, email, memos, reports, billboards, advertisements, forms, bills, policies, instruction manuals. The world’s work […]
We live in a highly textual world. Texts meet us and our students at every turn: on our cell phone screens, computer screens, in the news tickers that run along the bottom of our television screens, in newspapers, magazines, books, trade newsletters, email, memos, reports, billboards, advertisements, forms, bills, policies, instruction manuals. The world’s work […]
Each of us had that “first job.” For the three of us, it was bagging groceries at the local supermarket, shelving books at the city library, and serving Big Macs at the local McDonald’s. For each of these jobs, we had to fill out job applications, request work permits signed by school guidance counselors and […]
