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More than Words Alone Can Say: Writing with Images in the Digital Age

Last week, on the day before Thanksgiving vacation, several of my fifth-graders voluntarily stayed after school with me to work on a project for which they would receive no grade: producing calendars based on poems and illustrations they had created for a class project.

5 months ago by Susan Lucille Davis

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Teaching Without Words: A Conversation With Researcher Matthew Petersen

Matthew Petersen is an extremely smart person who as a child struggled with dyslexia and the way he was taught in the traditional school system—a system that focuses on words and numbers.

7 months ago by Jonathan Wai

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3 Reasons Why Schools Neglect Spatial Intelligence

In Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence? I stressed that as a society we have neglected spatially talented students who are not as good with words and numbers but who are quite talented at manipulating figures and shapes in their minds. In this article, I offer a few reasons as to why schools tend to neglect spati...

8 months ago by Jonathan Wai

EdTech

Q&A: Visualize Learning Concepts

Conceptboard, a German-based technology company, hit the market in early 2011 and has caught the attention of high school educators and students in the U.S. Taking a few cues from the popular social media platform Pinterst, Conceptboard has harnessed the creation of visual boards for learning and productivity.

9 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

Review: Mindjet Releases Mindjet Connect

About two weeks ago Mindjet, Inc. a leader in the field of mind mapping and knowledge mapping released Mindjet Connect a free online mind mapping tool. Now anyone with a browser and a connection to the web can take advantage of the power of mind mapping for free, using this unique service.

one year ago by Guest Author