The Importance Of Intrinsic Motivation for Students

What motivates students? And further, what motivates them to be engaged at school to master the objective you’ve chosen for them? The answers here vary dramatically and can have a huge impact on each and every student. Let’s start with the obvious line of answers....

A Better Alternative To Grading Student Writing

This is a quick post that just occurred to me while writing about–well, writing about writing. I was brainstorming ways to use technology to help students improve their writing and realized that over and over again, I was thinking about the process of writing and...

Exactly How Technology Can Make Reading Better

Reading is just the communication of ideas through alphanumeric symbols. I’m not sure what this represents such hallowed ground for teachers, but it does. Personally I’d be more concerned with reading habits, reasons for reading, the quality of reading materials, etc....