Month: December 2019
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The Remarkable Power of Surprise as a Teaching Tool
One of the most important landmark literature reviews in recent memory, Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners, poses the following, all too common, situation: Consider the example of a ninth-grader who enters high school unsure of his academic ability and worried about finding friends. When he struggles with the problems on his first math assignment and…
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The Best EdTech Tool For Improving Writing Instruction
In 1966, Ellis Page, often referred to as the father of computerized grading, published an essay (see right) in Phi Delta Kaplan where he argued that “We will soon be grading essays by computer, and this development will have an astonishing impact on the educational world.” The computers he was talking about? Mainframes that took…
Matthew M. Johnson 